Cinema and Northern Ireland : film, culture and politics / John Hill

London, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 274 pages. 23cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 'Ulster must be made soft and romantic': Northern Ireland film-making in the 1920s and 1930s -- 'Ulster will fight again': cinema and censorship in the 1930s -- 'Ulster at arms': film and the Second World War -- 'What ideas and beliefs concerning Ulster'?: the struggle over film images in the postwar period -- 'Go-ahead Ulster': film, modernisation and the return of the repressed -- From 'propaganda for the arts' to 'the most powerful industry in the world': film policy, economics and culture -- 'It's chaos out there': changing representations of the 'troubles'. Summary: John Hill traces the history of film production in Northern Ireland from the beginnings of a local film industry in the 1920s and 1930s, when the first Northern Irish 'quota quickies' were made, through the propaganda films of the 1940s and 1950s and on to the cinema of the 'Troubles'. Subjects: Motion picture industry. Motion pictures. Politics in motion pictures. Motion picture industry Northern Ireland. Genre: Bibliography.