Family rhythms: The changing textures of family life in Ireland (French Film Directors Series Mup) - Hardcover

Gray, Jane; Geraghty, Ruth; Ralph, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719091519 ISBN 13: 9780719091513

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

"Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book shows the resilience of families in different social and historical contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of the challenges that face families and how social research can inform policy makers' responses. Family rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly textbook that offers a variety of strategies for engaging readers, including direct encounters with qualitative data through the use of classroom oriented discussion panels. Synopses of landmark Irish studies are included throughout, bringing the insights from these key studies together in a single textbook for the first time."

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Gray is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University and Research Associate of the National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis

Ruth Geraghty is Data Curator for the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland at the Centre for Effective Services

David Ralph is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin

Review:

"O'Shaughnessy's book is nuanced, insightful and an important contribution to the study of contemporary political cinema." - Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, H-France Review Vol. 17, March 2017

"While every chapter of the volume charts a compelling path through Cantet's work,
the probing critical analysis in the chapter devoted to Vers le sud is particularly rewarding." - Laura McMahon, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Contmporary French Civilization

"This study provides students and scholars of contemporary French social cinema with a useful key to understand the reinvention of political cinema in France since the mid-1990s."
Audrey Evrard, Fordham University, Modern and Contemporary France

"The publication offers a wide-ranging and scrupulous evaluation of the filmic, the
social and the political contexts in which Cantet operates. It conveys with an acute awareness how he has become one of France's most exciting working directors. Indexed, complete with thirteen illustrations, a detailed filmography and suggestions for further reading, O'Shaughnessy's Laurent Cantet will provide a rich trove of information for all those with an interest in contemporary France, and its cinematic output specifically." - Ally Lee, University of Warwick, Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, Issue 11

"O'Shaughnessy's writing is clear and engaging, and his discussions move supply between filmic material, theoretical reference points and contextual French political and cultural issues. In its elucidation of Cantet's work through a cogent interdisciplinary framework, this is an addition to scholarship on contemporary French cinema that feels as punctual as the film-making with which it engages." - Rhiannon Harries, University of Cambridge, New Review of Film and Television Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0719091519
• ISBN 13: 9780719091513
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272