'What Is This, the Seventies?' Spectres of the Past (and the Future) in Recent Northern Irish Television
| Autor: | Colin Coulter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Cultural Studies
History Visual Arts and Performing Arts 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 06 humanities and the arts Hauntology Northern ireland language.human_language 060104 history 0508 media and communications Irish language Economic history 0601 history and archaeology Fall of man |
| Zdroj: | Television & New Media. 23:422-437 |
| ISSN: | 1552-8316 1527-4764 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1527476420985826 |
| Popis: | For all the gains made during its celebrated peace process, Northern Ireland remains haunted by a conflict that claimed more than 3,700 lives. One of the spaces in which the ghosts of the past manifest themselves is that of television drama. In this article, Mark Fisher’s reading of “hauntology” provides the theoretical frame for an analysis of two recent TV series set in Northern Ireland: The Fall and Derry Girls. Although the programs could not be more different in both tone and content, they both illustrate sharply that the region remains, in John Hewitt’s indelible phrase, a “ghost-haunted land.” In particular, The Fall and Derry Girls reveal that Northern Ireland continues to be deeply troubled both by those who were lost during the conflict and by that which was lost in the transition to peace. |
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