"Racism's part of my culture": Nation, race and humour in Irish Jam (2006) and The Guard (2011)
This article applies theories of humour (incongruity, superiority, relief) to a reading of the films Irish Jam (John Eyres, 2006) and The Guard (John Michael McDonagh, 2011) in order to interrogate their depiction of racial, national and cultural stereotypes and differences. Both films combine eleme...
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University College Cork
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media |
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| Online Access: | http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue13/HTML/ArticleGoff.html |