Mark Connelly

This illustrated history analyses celluloid depictions of the IRA from the 1916 Easter Rising to the peace process of the 1990s. Topics include America's role in creating both the IRA and its cinematic image, the organisation's brief association with the Nazis, and critical reception of IRA films in Ireland, Britain and the United States. Meer

This work examines the life and fiction of Charles Jackson, a pioneer gay writer who addressed taboo issues with insight and sensitivity. His stories about "outing", gay-bashing, molestation, and thrill killers are now more relevant in the 21st century than when they first appeared in the 1950s. Meer

`We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. Meer

British Instructional Films was at the centre of a number of issues important to Britain and the Empire in the 1920s:  the memory and history of the Great War, national and imperial identities, the role of cinema as a shaper of attitudes, power relations between Britain and the USA and the nature of popular culture as an international contest. Meer