The Field By Cheryl Herr Description: John B. Keane's popular play The Field (1965), based on a boundary dispute and murder in County Kerry, inspired the 1990 film scripted and directed by Jim Sheridan. Both works address the impact of dislocating social change on agricultural communities while insisting on darker power struggles within traditional life. To Keane's acute portrayal of the mid-century dismantling of rural society, Sheridan adds not only his characteristic attention to the varieties of social injustice spawned by modernisation, but also liberal allusions to Irish myth, literature, and cinema. Drawing on fresh interviews, archival research, and new directions in the philosophy of film studies, Cheryl Herr grounds this reading of The Field in the conflict between embodied communal practices and the eternal threat of the outsider. Cheryl Herr is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and has published books on James Joyce, Irish theatre, and most recently Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies (University Press of Florida, 1996) Subject Classification: Film Studies/Cultural Studies/Literature Market: General reader with an interest in film. Key Features: ˇ Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader ˇ Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion. ˇ Collaboration between Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland. Published June 2002 ISBN: 1 85918 292 5, Paperback, EUR10.00, US$9.95 135 x 190mm, 98pp Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1.Keane and The Field John B. Keane The Field The Tangler Local History 2. Fieldwork: A Practical Approach to Film 3. Sheridan and The Field Jim Sheridan in Context Father, Son, and the Law of the Land Women and Intertextuality Credits Notes Bibliography Series editors: Keith Hopper (text), Gráinne Humphreys (image) An incisive series designed to increase critical understanding of 'Irish' film. Ireland into Film invites writers and scholars from the fields of film and literary studies to examine notable adaptations of Irish literary texts. Mike Collins University College, Cork Ireland ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu