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dc.contributor.creatorFlannery, Eoin
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-25T14:35:50Z
dc.date.available2016-01-25T14:35:50Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationFlannery, Eoin (2011) ‘Postcolonial passages: Migration and cinematic form in Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47(1) 65-77en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10395/2056
dc.description.abstractThis essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial identity and global capital. But the essay also focuses on how the formal features of the two cinematic, visual texts act and interact with the primary thematic concerns cited above. Thus, the essay foregrounds technical form as a crucial aspect of any consideration of contemporary postcolonial texts, not just cinematic or visual. The essay explores how different “forms” can co‐exist within one text and charts how these chafe against each other, particularly in Haneke’s Hidden, as competing sides in France’s colonial history come into conflict in the present – it is the issue of form that most explicitly underscores the violent tensions of the past erupting in the present. Likewise, Gilsenan’s much shorter film makes the viewer highly self‐conscious about the ways in which we view the tragedies and the hardships of “the other”. As it is an Irish film, Ireland’s own protracted colonial history obviously bears upon our reactions to this specific and tragic consequence of neo‐colonialism charted by Gilsenan.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Postcolonial Writing;47(1)
dc.rightsCopyright © Routledge Taylor and Francis. Full publication can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2011.533957en_US
dc.subjectIrelanden_US
dc.subjectFranceen_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectNeo‐colonialismen_US
dc.subjectCinemaen_US
dc.titlePostcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s "Hidden" and Alan Gilsenan’s "Zulu 9"en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.type.supercollectionmic_published_revieweden_US
dc.description.versionYesen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.533957


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