Irish Masculinity on Screen

<p> Examining images of gender and violence this book analyzes selected works of three influential artists of the Irish cinema--Ford Sheridan and Greengrass--whose careers taken together span the period from 1939 to the present. These three explore fundamental questions about identity patriarchy and violence within Irish and Irish-American contexts and in the process upset conventional notions of masculine authority. Furthermore Ford's later films interestingly depart from the egalitarian ideals that distinguish his pre-World War II films.</p>