Films of Lenny Abrahamson

Barry Monahan is lecturer in Film Studies at the University College Cork, Ireland. He has published Ireland’s Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen (2009), and also written on Irish cinema from different theoretical and aesthetic perspectives in various collections of essays, including Screening Irish America (2009), Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism (2007), and Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts (2013). He contributes regularly to Estudios Irlandeses, the Spanish Journal of Irish Studies.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: Five Contextual Categories: Classifying Cinema in IrelandFour Cinematic Categories: The National and BeyondChapter 1: 3 Joes – The Young Filmmaker and the First Short: MendelChapter 2: Adam and Paul – Celtic Tiger Cinema: From Short Films to FeaturesChapter 3: Garage – A Second Collaboration with Mark O’Halloran Chapter 4: What Richard Did – Characters in ContextChapter 5: Frank – Inside the Head of the Character in Early CinemaChapter 6: Room – Contexts for the Novel and its AdaptationChapter 7: Interview with Lenny Abrahamson (Dublin, 1 June 2014)BibliographyFilmographyIndex

Barry Monahan’s book is an insightful treatment of Lenny Abrahamson’s cinematic oeuvre, a thorough analysis of Abrahamson’s seven films that moves beyond the filmmaker’s national context to explore the films’ transnational and intertextual inspiration and philosophical concerns. I strongly recommend this perceptive study to anyone interested in the work of this exciting Irish director.