Trans-gendering the Irish Na(rra)tion: Neil Jordan’s Breakfast on Pluto by E. Guillermo Iglesias-Díaz

“…Thirteen years after The Crying Game (1992) was released, Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan returns to the intersectional issues of gender and national identity in his adaptation of Patrick McCabe’s novel Breakfast on Pluto (1998). …”
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Genital impacts Genital impacts by Luiz Felipe G Soares

“…I propose to analyze three images of genitalia from three different films that do not have sex as their central subject: (1) Lígia’s (Leona Cavalli’s) vulva in Claudio Assis’s Amarelo Manga (Brazil, 2002), (2) Stoffer’s (Jens Albinus’s) erect penis in Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (Denmark, 1998), and (3) transsexual Dil’s (Jaye Davidson’s) penis in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game (USA, 1992). All three images are explicit and surprising enough to provoke impact, both in diegetic and extra-diagetic spaces. intend to compare the three images and investigate the nature of their impacts, not directly in terms of morality, but in their relation with two theoretical assumptions: (1) the intense way in which, according to Linda Nicholson (1999), so many cultures insist in interpreting bodies and genitalia as still capable of defining gender characters, and (2) the notion of image, not as representation, but as image itself, as “what it is”, or as “the place of every transformation in the universe”, as suggested first by Bergson (2005), and then by Deleuze (1983-5), Rancière (2001) and Agamben (1995). …”
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Le cinéma irlandais à la conquête de l’Europe by Isabelle Le Corff

“…A change occurred in the 1990’s with the Oscar winning Irish films My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989) and The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992). The rapid economic growth that followed has allowed Ireland to become a great place to produce films in the early twenty-first century. …”
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Genital impacts by Luiz Felipe G Soares

“…I propose to analyze three images of genitalia from three different films that do not have sex as their central subject: (1) Lígia’s (Leona Cavalli’s) vulva in Claudio Assis’s Amarelo Manga (Brazil, 2002), (2) Stoffer’s (Jens Albinus’s) erect penis in Lars von Trier’s The Idiots (Denmark, 1998), and (3) transsexual Dil’s (Jaye Davidson’s) penis in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game (USA, 1992). All three images are explicit and surprising enough to provoke impact, both in diegetic and extra-diagetic spaces. intend to compare the three images and investigate the nature of their impacts, not directly in terms of morality, but in their relation with two theoretical assumptions: (1) the intense way in which, according to Linda Nicholson (1999), so many cultures insist in interpreting bodies and genitalia as still capable of defining gender characters, and (2) the notion of image, not as representation, but as image itself, as “what it is”, or as “the place of every transformation in the universe”, as suggested first by Bergson (2005), and then by Deleuze (1983-5), Rancière (2001) and Agamben (1995). …”
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Stress-free upbringing, children's rights, and peer violence by Leszek Goździewski

“…The third and last goal of this studies is the analysis and evaluation of the problem existing in schools and institutions for minors, which is undoubtedly violence and aggression, where we only see a crying games, for example - action in an educational institution "Week without violence", "Stop aggression", installing cameras in front of the building or inside it. …”
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