3. Re-imagined Kinship and Failed Communities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. 1. Queerly National and Nationally Queer: Paradoxes of an Irish Queer Cinema 1
6. 2. Mapping Ireland’s Queer Films 18
7. 3. Re-imagined Kinship and Failed Communities 28
8. 4. The Contested Space of the Irish Pub 48
9. 5. Compartmentalised Cosmopolitans and Rigid Fluidity 67
10. 6. The Queerly Productive Constraints of Rural Space 91
11. 7. Queer Mobilities and Disassociated Masculinities 109
12. 8. Contested Belongings within Diasporic Space 128
13. 9. The Irish Queer Short Film 146
14. 10. Concluding Remarks 160
15. Select Filmography 162
16. Bibliography 163
17. Index 174