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The “Making of” The Quiet Man: Popular Studies and Documentaries

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This chapter navigates a core dynamic of extension and contestation of artifice within “Making of” texts. Engaging with “Making of” The Quiet Man documentaries and popular studies by a range of Irish and international writers and filmmakers, Cronin explores how this dynamic orients the “Making of” genre towards the adaptive mode, and how it informs the genre’s capacity to extend and contest cultural imaginaries. As a result, this chapter profiles the emergence of a trans-cultural imaginary—an amorphous dream of time and place operational across cultures—that infuses the Irish imaginary associated with The Quiet Man.

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  1. School of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Jan Cronin

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Cronin, J. (2019). The “Making of” The Quiet Man: Popular Studies and Documentaries. In: The Making of… Adaptation and the Cultural Imaginary . Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28349-0_4

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