Cinema and Northern Ireland

John Hill is Professor and Head of Research in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Cinema and Ireland (1987); Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe (1994); The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998); British Cinema in the 1980s (1999) and National Cinema and Beyond (2004).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. 'Ulster must be made soft and romantic': Northern Ireland Film-making in the 1920s and 1930s2. 'Ulster will fight again': Cinema and Censorship in the 1930s3. 'Ulster at Arms': Film and the Second World War4. 'What ideas and beliefs concerning Ulster'?: The Struggle Over Film Images in the Postwar Period5. 'Go-ahead Ulster': Film, Modernisation and the Return of the Repressed6. From 'propaganda for the arts' to 'the most powerful industry in the world': Film Policy, Economics and Culture7. 'It's chaos out there': Changing Representations of the 'Troubles'Select BibliographyIndex

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