Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts : Cities of Memory
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Queen's University of Belfast
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 228552450
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137439543
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- Phelan (Drama) co-edited this interdisciplinary collection with O’Rawe (Film). He also contributed a co-authored introduction (pp. 1-11), and a substantial sole-authored chapter (pp. 129-155). The book examines the role of performance, film, and the visual arts in contemporary post-conflict cities, and also includes original contributions from a range of international scholars drawn from various disciplines (including Marvin Carlson (Theatre Studies), Thomas Elsaesser (Film Studies), Miriam Paeslack (Art History), Rob Stone (Film Studies), and Jane Taylor (Theatre Studies)). The range of post-conflict urban contexts discussed in the collection includes Bilbao, Berlin, Sarajevo, Skopje, Milan, Belfast, Derry, Johannesburg, Beirut, Tunis, and Harare, and in its comparative approach and thematic scope, the collection is also informed by developments in the nascent field of Memory Studies, and in particular with exploring how the arts can affect what and how cities remember and forget experiences of violent conflict and civic unrest.
The collection also represents a scholarly response to research questions that emerged during the course of a wider arts and post-conflict engagement project (originally supported by a British Academy grant, and developed in partnership with the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s) which had involved a colloquium and related performances, film screenings and workshops on the theme of post-conflict arts). Described by one reviewer as providing ‘a timely, comprehensive and convincing testimony to the crucial and vital role that the Arts have played, and can continue to contribute, in post-conflict situations’ (Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2.2, 2018), this edition is included as a volume in Contemporary Performance InterActions, a peer-reviewed series in this field (edited by Elaine Aston and Brian Singleton).
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