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Pine, Emilie

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“…Bobby Sands ceases to belong to a group of political prisoners and is cast instead in the role of the maverick who "rides alone" 57 so beloved of screen writers down the generations. 58 After the "avalanche of dialogue" 59 that defines the middle passage of Hunger, the film proceeds in almost total silence. This final segment of the movie documents the last days of Bobby Sands in the hospital wing in "excruciating detail."…”

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“…As Sands moves in and out of consciousness, an apparition appears at the foot of his bed in the guise of his twelve-year-old self. The boy stares unblinking at the camera, in a gesture to the closing scene of François Truffaut's celebrated 400 Blows, 61 a movie already referenced the previous year in the final frames of Shane Meadows' This is England. In these agonising closing scenes, Sands undergoes a predictable transformation that had already been signalled earlier in the movie.…”

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Learning to live with ghosts: spectres of “the Troubles” in contemporary Northern Irish cinema

Coulter

2021

Irish Studies Review

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That Northern Ireland remains profoundly troubled by its own violent past becomes readily apparent in many of the movies that have appeared since the Good Friday Agreement and not least those released since its tenth anniversary. In this article, I provide a broad sketch of recent Northern Irish cinema before moving to a close reading of two critically and commercially acclaimed features released in that period: Hunger (2008) and '71 (2014). The discussion is framed by Mark Fisher's reading of the Derridean notion of "hauntology" and focuses specifically on the idea that the spectre is a figure that is both retrospective and prospective. In their evocation of the ghosts of the Troubles, these movies offer an insight into a society that remains haunted both by the "no longer" of those who died during the conflict and also, perhaps, by the "not yet" of that which suffered a similar fate during the peace process that followed.

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confidence: 99%

Section: "But I Knew I Did the Right Thing By That Wee Foal"mentioning

confidence: 99%