[ecrea] Publication of book on film/visual culture in contemporary Northern Ireland

In case it may be of interest to list members, I am happy to announce 
the publication of my first monograph, published with Peter Lang and 
entitled Old Borders, New Technologies: Reframing Film and Visual 
Culture in Contemporary Northern Ireland. It is available from the 
following link, including review copies, and further details can be 
found below. Many thanks for your time.

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?cid=5&event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=72948

Book Synopsis
Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region 
since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, 
given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, 
including the early release of politically motivated prisoners from 
jail, society in Northern Ireland remains in a state of flux, 
uncertainty and disagreement.

This book presents four thematic studies revolving around the issues of 
imprisonment, surveillance, traumatic recall and myth-making in Northern 
Ireland. These studies examine the different ways in which artists and 
filmmakers are experimenting with film aesthetics and new media 
technologies to represent, re-present and invite engagement with the 
underlying anxieties that continue to trouble post-Agreement society. In 
doing so, the author argues for a reassessment of the critical analysis 
of film’s convergence with other forms of visual art. Ultimately, the 
volume assesses the usefulness of such an approach in examining how 
artists and filmmakers experiment with diverse forms that open up space 
for discussion of the hidden and marginalized concerns in Northern 
Ireland’s new, ‘shared’ society.

This book was the winner of the 2012 Peter Lang Young Scholars 
Competition in Film Studies.

Contents
Converging Boundaries
Prison Images: Film, Video and Site-Specific Storytelling
Control Zone: Power and the Simulation of the Real
The Mediated Past-Present: Memory and Live/Non-Live Images
Icons of the North: Myth-Making and Mediatization
What You Can’t See.
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Paula Blair, PhD
Researcher of Film and Visual Culture
@peablair https://twitter.com/peablair
https://qub.academia.edu/PaulaBlair
http://www.peterlang.com?430945

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