The Butcher Boy
Ireland into Film S.
Colin McCabe
ISBN: | 9781859182864 |
Publisher: | Cork University Press |
Published: | 30 November, 2006 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Saving: | Saving: $21.53 or 77% |
The Butcher Boy
Ireland into Film S.
Colin McCabe
The Butcher Boy is perhaps the finest film to have come out of Ireland. Although it marks a clear break with the more banal canons of realism, it is nonetheless the most realistic of Irish films. It engages with the society and culture of modern Ireland with a wit and ferocity that denies the viewer any easy moral position. Cinema is often thought of as a purely visual art, but this film is adapted from a novel by a filmmaker who is himself a writer of prose fiction. In this study, Colin McCabe examines the process by which fiction becomes film, and writing becomes image.
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