UNDERSTANDING FORD
A series of FREE Panel Discussions about John Ford.
The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) invites you to a series of FREE morning sessions with some of the WORLD's leading JOHN FORD experts at the John Ford Ireland Film Symposium (7-10 June). These events will give an inspiring insight into John Ford, his iconic films and lasting legacy.
Saturday June 9 (9:00am) and Sunday June 10 (11:00am) at the IFI, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
Visit www.johnfordireland.org to register to attend.
| John Ford: Ethnicity, Immigration and the American Dream
SATURDAY, 8th June, 9am |
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Gaylyn Studlar is a David May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis where she lectures in film studies. She is the editor of the collection John Ford Made Westerns which regards Ford's Westerns from fresh contemporary perspectives. Professor Studlar's talk will examine the complex issue of gender in Ford's Westerns. |
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Luke Gibbons is Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at NUI Maynooth. He has published widely on Irish culture, film, literature, and the visual arts. Professor Gibbons' talk will identify the many links between Ford and John Ford Award recipient Clint Eastwood, a director who also focuses on ethnicity in his work. |
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Artist and Writer Waylon White Deer of Choctaw Nation will discuss how First Nations peoples in America and elsewhere have been considerably impacted by John Ford's ongoing legacy. |
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Tony Tracy is a film studies lecture at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media. He has published extensively on Irish cinema and produced the documentary Blazing the Trail: The O'Kalems in Ireland about early Irish cinema. Tony Tracy will examine the Irish immigrant experience in the based-on-fact The Long Gray Line. |
| John Ford and Ireland
SUNDAY, 10TH June, 11am |
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 | Ruth Barton is a lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of a number of books on Irish cinema, including Screening Irish-America.She will look at what Victor McLaglen (The Informer, Fort Apache and The Quiet Man) signifies in Ford's work, particularly discussing him as a 'lumproterian' Irishman. |
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Barry Monahan lectures in the history and aesthetics of Irish and other national cinemas, and film theory, at UCC. He will consider the Irish 'accent' of Ford's Abbey Theatre films such as The Plough and the Stars and The Rising of the Moon. |
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Seán Crosson is a lecturer on Irish and World cinema at the Huston School at NUI, Galway. His publications include The Quiet Man ... and Beyond. Dr Crosson will discuss the representations of Gaelic games in films such as The Quiet Man, The Rising of the Moon and Young Cassidy. |
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Díóg O'Connell teaches film and media studies at IADT, where she explores narrative techniques in contemporary Irish cinema. She will consider to what extent a discussion of ethnic identity and the experience of immigration can be detected in Ford's films. |
PLUS MUCH MORE... Click here for the Sympoisum's Day By Day Schedule
TICKETS FOR THESE EVENTS ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
www.johnfordireland.org