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DOCUMENTARY FILM AND THE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND

北爱尔兰的纪录片和历史知识的公共传播

基本信息

批准号：
AH/I026626/1
负责人：
Fearghal McGarry
金额：
$ 13.24万
依托单位：
Queen's University Belfast
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2011 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI026626%2F1
关键词：
DOCUMENTARY FILM PUBLIC COMMUNICATION HISTORICAL

项目摘要

This Knowledge Transfer project proposes an interdisciplinary collaboration between a historian and a documentary film team around the making and exhibition of a feature length documentary film. The academic team (historian Dr Fearghal McGarry and film studies specialist Professor Desmond Bell) will work with the independent film and television company(Glass Machine Productions), broadcaster(TG4) and a regional film festival and gallery (Belfast Film Festival/Belfast Exposed) to produce and exhibit a feature length documentary film. The film is based on the published research of Dr McGarry ('Frank Ryan',Dublin 2010) and explores the life of republican activist and International Brigade volunteer, Frank Ryan (1902-1944). The project involves a series of festival screenings and workshop discussions, with website support, to accompany the television broadcast of the completed film. Through this multimedia strategy we aim to maximise the knowledge transfer impact of McGarry's research in the specific context of post-conflict Northern Ireland. This project explores a set of issues concerned with the relationship between academic history, factual film-making and the public communication of historical understanding in a divided society. In what ways does the approach of film-makers differ from the orthodox writing of history? What are the specific responsibilities of KT transfer of historical research in N.I.? We seek to add research value to the documentary film being produced and to reach a popular audience in N.I. - though potentially on a much wider basis - through television broadcast, webcast and cinema exhibition. The evidence is that the general public increasingly get their historical information from broadcast and film sources. But, is the historical documentary a populist form which necessarily involves the 'dumbing down' of academic history? On the other hand, can the inclusion of historical documentary material within the television schedule extend access to historical understanding to a broader range of people than the specialist texts of academic,written history? Our project proceeds from the assumption that to maximise the effectiveness of documentary film as a mode of knowledge transfer of historical understanding that we need to forge more effective partnerships between academic researchers, broadcasters and their audience. Frank Ryan's life remains an enigma. This teenage IRA volunteer, anti-treaty 'Irregular' in the Civil War, dissident republican socialist in 1930s Dublin, and International Brigade volunteer who fought fascism in the Spanish civil war ended his life working for the Nazis in wartime Berlin. The historical record is incomplete. Ideological disputes have further obscured our understanding of the man. For some in Ireland and across Europe he remains an icon -an Irish republican who embraced an international cause in Spain. His activities in Germany as a guest of the German intelligence services are quietly put aside. For others, Ryan's activities and very presence in Hitler's Berlin exemplify the reactionary character of militant nationalism and its willingness to compromise with fascism, while also raising serious questions about Ireland's neutrality during the Second World War. These remain live issues in Ireland. While our film seeks to be attentive to the latest historical research on Ryan and Ireland during the Second World War, it draws upon the imaginative resources of the creative documentary to encourage an interrogation of history in a society where historical narrative is often divisive. It explores a human story of tragic proportions with a mass audience for whom the story has a continuing resonance in the context of the current political dispensation in Northern Ireland. The project seeks to elaborate a model of good interdisciplinary practice to guide future collaborations between historians, filmmakers, broadcasters and their audience.

这一知识转移项目建议历史学家和纪录片团队围绕制作和放映一部长篇纪录片进行跨学科合作。学术团队(历史学家Fearghal McGarry博士和电影研究专家Desmond Bell教授)将与独立电影电视公司(Glass Machine Productions)、广播公司(TG4)以及地区电影节和画廊(贝尔法斯特电影节/贝尔法斯特曝光)合作，制作和放映一部长篇纪录片。这部电影是根据麦克格里博士(《弗兰克·瑞安》，2010年，都柏林)发表的研究改编的，探索了共和党活动家和国际旅志愿者弗兰克·瑞安(1902-1944)的生活。该项目包括一系列电影节放映和研讨会讨论，在网站的支持下，伴随着完成的电影的电视播放。通过这一多媒体战略，我们的目标是在冲突后北爱尔兰的特定背景下，最大限度地发挥麦克格里研究的知识转移影响。这个项目探索了一系列问题，涉及学术历史、纪实电影制作和分裂社会中历史理解的公共传播之间的关系。电影制作人的做法与正统的历史写作方式有哪些不同？KT移交国家历史研究中心的具体职责是什么？我们寻求为正在制作的纪录片增加研究价值，并通过电视广播、网络广播和电影放映接触到新墨西哥州的受欢迎的观众-尽管潜在的基础要广泛得多。证据是，公众越来越多地从广播和电影来源获得他们的历史信息。但是，历史纪录片是一种民粹主义形式，必然涉及对学术历史的“低调”吗？另一方面，与学术、书面历史的专业文本相比，在电视节目中加入历史纪录片能让更广泛的人获得对历史的理解吗？我们的项目源于这样一个假设，即为了使纪录片作为一种历史理解的知识转移模式的有效性最大化，我们需要在学术研究人员、广播公司和他们的观众之间建立更有效的伙伴关系。弗兰克·瑞安的生活仍然是个谜。这位十几岁的爱尔兰共和军志愿者，内战中的反条约者，20世纪30年代都柏林的持不同政见的共和社会主义者，以及在西班牙内战中与法西斯主义作战的国际旅志愿者，结束了他在战时柏林为纳粹工作的生命。历史记录是不完整的。意识形态的争论进一步模糊了我们对这个人的理解。对于爱尔兰和整个欧洲的一些人来说，他仍然是一个偶像--一位在西班牙拥抱国际事业的爱尔兰共和党人。他作为德国情报机构的客人在德国的活动被悄悄地搁置一边。对于其他人来说，瑞安的活动和在希特勒统治下的柏林的存在证明了激进民族主义的反动性质及其与法西斯主义妥协的意愿，同时也引发了人们对爱尔兰在第二次世界大战期间保持中立的严重质疑。在爱尔兰，这些仍然是活生生的问题。虽然我们的电影试图关注关于第二次世界大战期间瑞安和爱尔兰的最新历史研究，但它利用了这部创造性纪录片的想象力资源，鼓励在一个历史叙事往往存在分歧的社会中对历史进行质询。它探索了一个悲剧性的人类故事，在北爱尔兰当前的政治分配的背景下，这个故事在广大观众中产生了持续的共鸣。该项目旨在制定一种良好的跨学科实践模式，以指导历史学家、电影制作人、广播公司和他们的观众之间未来的合作。