2007 (5.3): Popular Visual Culture in Ireland
Guest Editor: Justin Carville
This proposed themed issue on Popular Visual Culture in Ireland will bring together a collection of essays to examine a range cultural products and events to trace various forms of Ireland's popular visual culture from the mid-Victorian era to the establishment of Irish State. Drawn from a range of disciplines covering the humanities, architectural history and theory, sociology, film studies and the history and theory of photography, contributors will examine popular forms of Irish visual culture from a range of theoretical and historical perspectives. The essays will explore issues of the reception and popular visual entertainments as well as examining the social and political context of Ireland's visual culture from the mid 19th century. The range of essays will examine the intersection of visual culture and Irish politics from an interdisciplinary perspective that has been lacking in previous studies visual imagery within Irish Studies.
Dublin, the 1932 Eucharistic Congress and the Politics of Religion Gary Boyd
Mr. Lawrence's Great Photographic Bazaar: Photography, History and the Imperial Streetscape Justin Carville
'A City of The World; A Street with no Name, A War about which no-one speaks': Visualisation, interculturalism and Terror in two films of Liam O'Flaherty's novels; The Informer 1935; and Le Puritain, 1937. Paula Gilligan
Magic Lantern's and Rural Ireland, 1896-1906 Niamh McCole
Modernity and Consumption in 19thC Ireland: The Araby Bazaar and 1890s Popular Visual Culture Stephanie Rains
Picturesque 'Realism' in Ireland: Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall's Wicklow Eamonn Slater
2008 (6.2): Visual Culture in the Middle East
Guest Editor: Kaveh Askeri, Department of English, Western Washington University, USA
Further details will be available soon.
