The Troubles crime thriller and the future of films about Northern Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorGallagher, Richard
dc.contributor.editorBaschiera, Stefanoen
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-01T08:53:01Z
dc.date.available2022-03-01T08:53:01Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractTroubles-based crime thrillers were once a staple of Hollywood cinema in the 1990s. However, these types of films have become something of a subgenre of European crime films in the last few decades given that films produced over the period have all been produced and financed by either the United Kingdom, Ireland, France or Germany. Owing to both the financial and critical success of these films, relative to other types of films about Northern Ireland, and the more market-driven approach adopted by policymakers, the crime thriller genre has also become the primary way that audiences engage with cinema about Northern Ireland. Although some encouraging developments have come with this transition away from, at times, exploitative Hollywood-produced films, continued reliance on genre in this new dispensation—specifically the crime thriller—is still a development that is not without problems. The type of films about the conflict produced today also contrasts significantly with those produced during the “first wave” of Irish cinema in the 1980s.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGallagher, R. (2022) 'The Troubles crime thriller and the future of films about Northern Ireland', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 22, pp. 42-53. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.03en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.03
dc.identifier.endpage53
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued22
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage42
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12641
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue22/HTML/ArticleGallagher.html
dc.rights© 2022, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectThe Troublesen
dc.subjectCrime thrilleren
dc.subjectFuture of filmsen
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden
dc.titleThe Troubles crime thriller and the future of films about Northern Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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