Activity: Talk or presentation (Unpublished) › Invited Talk
Description
Understanding the reasons for the extraordinary commercial and critical success of An Cailín Ciúin (2022) is a complex undertaking that involves considerations at a number of levels. This would include (to name but a few) the production context that made the film’s creation possible in the first instance; the marketing and distribution context that enabled it to reach a larger national and international audience than previous Irish language productions have achieved; and the particularities of its linguistic and aesthetic realisation that contributed to its impact on audiences. This paper is particularly interested in this final aspect and will examine how the film realises and communicates evocatively to the viewer the trope of vulnerability through the realisation of “haptic visuality” within the film text.
Period
9 Dec 2025
Event title
Irish Film Studies Symposium in honour of Professor Ruth Barton