Uncanny motherhood in contemporary Irish cinema

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Uncanny motherhood in contemporary Irish cinema

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The figure of the mother has long occupied a powerful symbolic as well as social presence in Irish society, reflecting a post‑colonial legacy of the feminised nation — by both oppressor and revolutionaries — and the centrality of motherhood and the maternal within Irish Catholicism. In recent years there has been a proliferation of images of mothers in Irish cinema. This chapter argues that such representations strike a radically different emphasis than earlier ones and challenge the long‑prevailing ideals of post‑independence national and religious myth. Identifying a category of “uncanny motherhood,” the chapter offers close readings of four contemporary films in which the maternal is haunted by forces and figures of the past. By eschewing social‑realist approaches in favor of more elliptical narrative modes — arthouse and horror — these films present complex and courageous portraits of female subjectivity, while making clear that the experience of (Irish) motherhood has often been far more complex, strenuous, and isolating than the state‑sanctioned ideal has allowed.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Uncanny motherhood in contemporary Irish cinema

Popis výsledku anglicky

The figure of the mother has long occupied a powerful symbolic as well as social presence in Irish society, reflecting a post‑colonial legacy of the feminised nation — by both oppressor and revolutionaries — and the centrality of motherhood and the maternal within Irish Catholicism. In recent years there has been a proliferation of images of mothers in Irish cinema. This chapter argues that such representations strike a radically different emphasis than earlier ones and challenge the long‑prevailing ideals of post‑independence national and religious myth. Identifying a category of “uncanny motherhood,” the chapter offers close readings of four contemporary films in which the maternal is haunted by forces and figures of the past. By eschewing social‑realist approaches in favor of more elliptical narrative modes — arthouse and horror — these films present complex and courageous portraits of female subjectivity, while making clear that the experience of (Irish) motherhood has often been far more complex, strenuous, and isolating than the state‑sanctioned ideal has allowed.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen

ISBN

978-1-032-48572-0

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

394 - 406

Počet stran knihy

640

Název nakladatele

Taylor and Francis

Místo vydání

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Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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