Routes Irish: 'Irishness', 'authenticity' and the working class in the films of Ken Loach
Routes Irish: 'Irishness', 'authenticity' and the working class in the films of Ken Loach
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爱尔兰路线：肯·洛奇电影中的“爱尔兰性”、“真实性”和工人阶级
DOI：
10.1080/09670882.2011.541653
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发表时间：
2011
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0.7
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Hill J
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Hill J
虽然电影制片人肯·洛奇在他的电影和电视剧中处理爱尔兰政治和历史方面享有盛誉，但他对英国爱尔兰人的描绘却很少受到评论。本文表明如何话语的“爱尔兰”是线程通过他的工作设置在英格兰和苏格兰，这涉及到如何呼吁爱尔兰天主教元素的工人阶级的经验，作为一种手段，加强的意义上的“真实性”和工人阶级的劣势，这是他的工作的标志。与此同时，它还涉及唤起工人阶级的同志情谊，在某些情况下，还涉及社会和经济不平等引发的政治抵抗。在这方面，洛奇的电影可能被视为依赖于相对熟悉的爱尔兰人形象-“贫民窟爱尔兰人”和“战斗爱尔兰人”的变体-同时使“英国”工人阶级的传统理解复杂化。
Although the filmmaker Ken Loach possesses a reputation for dealing with Irish politics and history in his films and television plays, his portrait of the Irish in Britain has been much less commented upon. This article indicates how a discourse of ‘Irishness’ is threaded through his work set in England and Scotland and how this involves appealing to Irish-Catholic elements of working-class experience as a means of reinforcing the sense of ‘authenticity’ and working-class disadvantage that is the hallmark of his work. At the same time, it also involves invoking the working-class camaraderie and, in some cases, political resistance that is prompted by social and economic inequality. In this respect, Loach's films may be seen to rely on relatively familiar images of the Irish – variants of the ‘slum Irish’ and the ‘fighting Irish’ – while simultaneously complicating conventional understandings of the ‘British’ working class.