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Dr. Seán Crosson

Dr. Seán Crosson is the Programme Director of the MA/Postgraduate Diploma in Film Studies at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. He contributes to both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the Huston School.

Telephone: 00 353 (0)91 495687
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Address: ‘Bubble', Huston School of Film & Digital Media

Teaching Modules

MA in Film Studies

Imagined Irelands: Representations of Ireland in Cinema
Cinema and Vietnam
Research Methods
Scéalta Scáileáin na Gaeilge/Screen Stories in Irish (Delivered through the Irish language)

MA in Production and Direction

Imaginative Responses (World Cinema) 1
Imaginative Responses (World Cinema) 2
Creative Documentary
Research Methods

BA Connect with Film Studies

Introduction to Film Studies III: Alternate Forms ‘Beyond Hollywood ’

Research interests

Dr. Crosson's research interests include Irish film, film and sport, and the relationship between music and poetry. His current research project examines the representation of sport in film, the subject of a conference and several symposia held in the Huston School over the past two years, and of his forthcoming monograph to be published by Routledge in 2011.

Publications

(forthcoming) Sport and Film, as part of the ‘Frontiers of Sport' series (Routledge, 2011).
(forthcoming) (Co-editor with Philip Dine) Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe (Peter Lang, 2010)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

(forthcoming)(with Philip Dine) Guest co-editor of Special Issue of Media History Journal on ‘Sport and the Media in Ireland' (Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2011)
(forthcoming)(with Dónal McAnallen) ‘ "Croke Park goes Plumb Crazy": Cinema Newsreels and Gaelic Games', Special Issue of Media History Journal on ‘Sport and the Media in Ireland' (Forthcoming, Vol. 17, Issue 1, 2011)

Chapters in Books

(forthcoming) ‘Anticipating a Postnationalist Ireland: Representing Gaelic Games in Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) and Clash of the Ash (1987)' in Redefinitions of Irish Identity: A Postnationalist Approach, edited by Carmen Zamorano Llena and Irene Gilsenan Nordin. (Peter Lang, 2010).
‘Gaelic Games and "the Movies"' in The Gaelic Athletic Association 1884-2009, edited by Mike Cronin, William Murphy and Paul Rouse (Irish Academic Press, 2009), pp. 111-136.
‘ "Shillalah Swing Time...You'll thrill each time a wild Irishman's skull shatters": Representing Hurling in American Cinema: 1930-1960' in Screening Irish-America: Representing Irish-America in Film and Television, edited by Ruth Barton. (Irish Academic Press, 2009).

Other Publications

(forthcoming) (Co-editor with Anne Karhio and Charles Armstrong) Crisis and Contemporary Poetry, (Palgrave, 2010).
(forthcoming) (Co-editor with Werner Huber) Contemporary Irish Film (Braumüller, 2011)
(co-editor with Rod Stoneman), The Quiet Man ... and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, John Ford and Ireland (Liffey Press, 2009).
(co-editor with Nessa Cronin and John Eastlake), Anáil an Bhéil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
‘The Given Note': Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008)

Other Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles

‘Traditional Music and Song and the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella', Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 7, (2008), pp. 71-89.‘
"They can't wipe us out, they can't lick us. We'll go on forever pa, ‘cause we're the people" - Misrepresenting death in Jim Sheridan's In America (2003)', Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 3, (2008), pp. 65-71.
‘Performance and Music in the Poetry of Ciaran Carson', Nordic Irish Studies, Special Issue: Contemporary Irish Poetry, Vol. 3, Issue 1, (2004), pp. 101-111.
‘Vanishing Point: An Examination of Some Consequences of Globalization for Contemporary Irish Film', E-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 1, (2003), pp. 1-23

Other Selected Articles and Chapters in Books

(forthcoming) ‘Irish Intolerance: Exploring its Roots in Irish Cinema', in Contemporary Irish Film edited by Werner Huber and Seán Crosson (Braumüller, 2010)
(forthcoming) ‘ "The Given Note" Traditional Music, Crisis and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney', in Crisis and Contemporary Poetry edited by Anne Karhio, Seán Crosson and Charles Armstrong, (Palgrave, 2010).
‘Literature' in The Rough Guide to Ireland (Ninth Edition), edited by Paul Gray and Geoff Wallis, (Rough Guides Ltd., 2008), pp. 716-731.
‘Rewriting Boundaries: Traditional Irish Music and Contemporary Irish Poetry' in Re-writing Boundaries. Critical Approaches in Irish Studies, edited by Asier Altuna and Cristina Andreu, (PPU, 2007), pp. 247-259.
With Anne Karhio ‘Forget Everything Extra: Kiarostami in Finland', Film Ireland, Issue 118, (September/October 2007), pp. 22-24.
‘Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill: Reclaiming Women's Voice from Song' in Representing Ireland: Past, Present and Future, edited by Alison O'Malley-Younger and Frank Beardow (University of Sunderland Press, 2005), pp. 59-68.
‘The Effacement of Ireland from Contemporary Irish Film', Review of Postgraduate Studies, Vol. 11, (2003), pp. 94-105.
‘Irish Short Films - Essential Indigenous Productions', Review of Postgraduate Studies, Vol. 4 (1995), pp. 40-43.

Selected Review Articles

Review of Hunger (2008), Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 4, (2008): 160-163
‘From Kings to Cáca Mílis: Irish film and television as Gaeilge in 2007', Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 3, (2007): 217-222
‘Midnight Sun: From Kiarostami to Kaurismäki' (Review piece on the 22nd Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland), Film Ireland, Issue117, (July/August 2007)
Review of Six Shooter (2006), Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 2, (March 2007): 274-277.
Review of Pavee Lackeen (2005), Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 1, (March 2006): 185-187.
‘Umeå International Film Festival' (Review piece), Film Ireland, Issue 101, (November/December 2004) ‘Galway Film Fleadh 2004 Report', Film Ireland, Issue 100 (September/October 2004), pp. 10-11.
‘Molodist: Kiev International Film Festival', Film Ireland, Issue 96, (January/February 2004), p. 8.
‘Fine Lines (Review of the 43rd Krakow International Film Festival)', Film Ireland, Issue 94 (September/October 2003), pp. 8-9.

Media Contributions

Dr. Crosson has contributed to various arts, culture and current affairs programmes on national and international media outlets including the television stations ITV, Setanta Sports, and TG4 and the radio channels RTÉ radio 1, Newstalk, WUWM (Milwaukee Public Radio), Raidió na Gaeltachta and Raidió na Life. He has also contributed to a number of documentary programmes and series including:

(Forthcoming) A Boatload of Wild Irishmen (Dir: Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín), documentary on film director Robert Flaherty, to be broadcast on TG4 in late 2010. Premièred as An tÉireannach Fáin (The Wandering Irishman) at the Galway Film Fleadh 2010.
‘GAA@125 Bliain', 10-part documentary series on the Gaelic Athletic Association broadcast on TG4 January-March 2009 and November-January 2009/2010.

Positions

Vice-President of the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS). As well as being involved in preparations for the Federation's 2011 conference, to be held in Salford, England, Dr. Crosson is currently assisting in the development of links between those involved in Irish Studies across Europe, particularly with regard to study abroad programmes, joint research projects and the acquisition of funding.