| FA-51655-05 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Cheryl Temple Herr | Understanding Everyday Life in British and Irish Film | 1/1/2006 - 12/31/2006 | $40,000.00 | Cheryl | Temple | Herr | | | | University of Iowa | Iowa City | IA | 52242-1320 | USA | 2004 | Film History and Criticism | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
My book offers a new approach to film in Britain and Ireland based on the depiction of social practices—the routine behaviors of everyday life such as making tea, answering a phone call, and catching the Tube--across the history of Anglo-Celtic cinema. Indigenous film critics have long struggled to define the four national cinemas (England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland) in terms of setting, characterization, or mode. My practice-oriented approach reconfigures the field to focus on lived customs, their history, and their role in identity-construction by way of the cinema. This project foregrounds the web of similarities and differences that constitutes a "practical community" in the Atlantic archipelago. |