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Accessibility & LanguageStaff Profiles
Dr Conn Holohan
B.A.,M.A.,Ph.D.
Biography
Peer Reviewed Journals
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| (2024) | 'Love/Hate as Lyrical Sociology: Mapping the Spaces of Urban Crime'
Conn Holohan (2024) 'Love/Hate as Lyrical Sociology: Mapping the Spaces of Urban Crime'. Journal of European Popular Culture, 15 (1):5-19 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2023) | 'The Key: Abstraction, Embodiment, and Proper Distance within the Virtual Home'
Conn Holohan (2023) 'The Key: Abstraction, Embodiment, and Proper Distance within the Virtual Home'. Alphaville, (26):141-153 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2023) | 'Melodrama and Mise-en-Scène: The Excess of Objects in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943)'
Conn Holohan (2023) 'Melodrama and Mise-en-Scène: The Excess of Objects in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943)'. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 40 (7):827-847 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2018) | 'All That is Solid: Producing the Home-Space in John Stahl's Imitation of Life'
Conn Holohan (2018) 'All That is Solid: Producing the Home-Space in John Stahl's Imitation of Life'. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 35 (3):246-271 [DOI] [Details] |
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| (2017) | 'Mapping the European Cinematic'
Conn Holohan (2017) 'Mapping the European Cinematic'. Studies in European Cinema, 14 (1):1-6 [Details] |
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| (2012) | 'Wind: The Image of Violence'
Holohan, Conn (2012) 'Wind: The Image of Violence'. Short Film Studies, 2 (2):177-180 [Details] |
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| (2011) | 'Dreams of Home: Migrant Spaces and Narrative Desire in Felicia’s Journey'
Holohan, C. (2011) 'Dreams of Home: Migrant Spaces and Narrative Desire in Felicia’s Journey'. Irish Studies Review, 19 (1):87-97 [Details] |
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| (2011) | 'Disturbing types: gender stereotypes and the short film'
Holohan, C. (2011) 'Disturbing types: gender stereotypes and the short film'. Short Film Studies, 1 (1):287-290 [Details] |
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| (2011) | '‘‘Wrong Turns: radical spaces in the road movies of Tony Gatlif’'
Conn Holohan (2011) '‘‘Wrong Turns: radical spaces in the road movies of Tony Gatlif’'. Transnational Cinemas, 1 (3):21-35 [Details] |
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| (2010) | '‘Aesthetics of Intimacy in the Short Film’'
Conn Holohan (2010) '‘Aesthetics of Intimacy in the Short Film’'. Short Film Studies, 1 (1):87-90 [Details] |
Books
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2010) | Cinema on the Periphery: Contemporary Irish and Spanish Cinema.
Conn Holohan (2010) Cinema on the Periphery: Contemporary Irish and Spanish Cinema. Dublin and Oregon: Irish Academic Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
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| (2019) | 'Space and Place in Irish Cinema'
Conn Holohan (2019) 'Space and Place in Irish Cinema' In: The Blackwell Companion to British and Irish Cinema. :407-422 London: Blackwell. [Details] |
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| (2015) | 'At Home in Irish Cinema'
Conn Holohan (2015) 'At Home in Irish Cinema' In: Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts. :13-23 London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
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| (2015) | 'Between a Rock and No-place: Ursusla Meier’s Home (2009)'
Conn Holohan (2015) 'Between a Rock and No-place: Ursusla Meier’s Home (2009)' In: Spatiality and Symbolic Expression: On The Links Between Place and Culture. :177-190 London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details] |
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| (2014) | 'Introduction: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture'
Conn Holohan and Tony Tracy (2014) 'Introduction: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture' In: Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture. :1-9 London: Palgrave. [Details] |
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| (2013) | 'Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory'
Conn Holohan (2013) 'Deleuze and the Image of Film Theory' In: The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism. :333-351 Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Details] |
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| (2009) | '‘Queering the Green?: the limitations of sexuality as metaphor in contemporary Irish cinema’'
Conn Holohan (2009) '‘Queering the Green?: the limitations of sexuality as metaphor in contemporary Irish cinema’' In: Cinemas of Ireland. :137-145 Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [Details] |
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| (2007) | 'Trauma, subjectivity and narrative in Breakfast on Pluto'
Conn Holohan (2007) 'Trauma, subjectivity and narrative in Breakfast on Pluto' In: Irish Films, Global Cinema. :140-149 Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Edited Books
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2014) | Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture.
Conn Holohan and Tony Tracy (Ed.). (2014) Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. [Details] |
Other Journals
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2011) | 'Virtual Cinema, Short Films'
Conn Holohan (2011) 'Virtual Cinema, Short Films' Estudios Irlandeses, 6 :205-207. [Details] |
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| (2009) | 'The Short Film and Irish Cinema'
Conn Holohan (2009) 'The Short Film and Irish Cinema' Estudios Irlandeses, 4 :184-187. [Details] |
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| (2008) | 'Interview with Lenny Abrahamson'
Conn Holohan (2008) 'Interview with Lenny Abrahamson' Estudios Irlandeses, (3) :161-165. [Details] |
Conference Contributions
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| (2024) | Unhomed, Unhoused, Homeless Conference,
Conn Holohan (2024) Immersive Empathy: Co-Creating Immersive Narratives on Home and Homelessness. [Conference Paper], Unhomed, Unhoused, Homeless Conference, University of Notre Dame , 01-MAR-24 - 02-MAR-24. [Details] |
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| (2024) | Society of Cinema and Media Studies,
Conn Holohan (2024) The Rainbow's Only Rival: Joseph Urban at Fox. [Conference Paper], Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Boston , 12-MAR-24 - 17-MAR-24. [Details] |
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| (2023) | eXtending Reality: Immersive Design, Production and Technology,
Conn Holohan (2023) Immersive Empathy: Co-Creating Immersive Narratives on Home and Homelessness. [Oral Presentation], eXtending Reality: Immersive Design, Production and Technology, University of Portsmouth , 11-SEP-23 - 11-SEP-23. [Details] |
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| (2023) | Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2023) Immersive Empathy: Co-Creating Immersive Narratives on Home and Homelessness. [Conference Paper], Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Denver, USA , 12-APR-23 - 16-APR-23. [Details] |
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| (2022) | European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2022) Immersive Empathy: Using Immersive Technology to Convey the Experience of Homelessness. [Conference Paper], European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Bucharest, Romania , 22-JUN-22 - 26-JUN-22. [Details] |
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| (2022) | First Thought Talks,
Conn Holohan (2022) Empathy and Homelessness. [Invited Paper], First Thought Talks, Galway International Arts Festival , 17-JUL-22. [Details] |
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| (2022) | Live Xinema Conference,
Conn Holohan (2022) Immersive Empathy: Co-Creating Immersive Narratives on Homelessness. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Live Xinema Conference, Nottingham University, UK , 23-SEP-22. [Details] |
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| (2022) | Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2022) We'll run this joint like a democracy: Tender Comrade (Dmytryk 1943) and the home front melodrama. [Conference Paper], Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, USA , 31-MAR-22 - 01-APR-22. [Details] |
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| (2021) | Screen Studies International Conference,
Conn Holohan (2021) And on a staircase too...¿: Tender Comrade (Edward Dmytryk, 1943), collectivism, and the home front melodrama. [Conference Paper], Screen Studies International Conference, Glasgow University , 17-JUN-21 - 20-JUN-21. [Details] |
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| (2019) | Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2019) Living in Style: Gender, Class and Movement in Late-1930s Melodrama. [Conference Paper], Society of Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Seattle, USA , 13-MAR-19 - 17-MAR-19. [Details] |
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| (2019) | Film Philosophy Conference,
Conn Holohan (2019) The Key that Fits: Melodrama¿s Uncanny Objects. [Conference Paper], Film Philosophy Conference, Brighton, UK , 09-JUL-19 - 11-JUL-19. [Details] |
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| (2017) | European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2017) Crossing the threshold: movement, mobility and the domestic spaces of the fallen woman film. [Conference Paper], European Network for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Sorbonne University, PAris , 28-JUN-17 - 01-JUL-17. [Details] |
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| (2017) | Film and Philosophy,
Conn Holohan (2017) 'Melodramatic Objects and the Weird Realism of Alfred Hitchcock'. [Conference Paper], Film and Philosophy, Lancaster University , 04-JUL-17 - 06-JUL-17. [Details] |
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| (2015) | European Cinema Research Forum Conference,
Conn Holohan (2015) An international conference exploring Space and Place in European Cinema. Keynotes included Prof. Thomas Elsaesser and Prof. Victor Burgin. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], European Cinema Research Forum Conference, NUI Galway , 08-JUL-15 - 09-JUL-15. [Details] |
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| (2015) | European Network for Comparative Literary Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2015) All That Is Solid: Camera and Character Movement in the Domestic Spaces of 1930s Melodrama. [Conference Paper], European Network for Comparative Literary Studies Conference, NUI Galway , 24-AUG-15 - 28-AUG-15. [Details] |
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| (2015) | Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference,
Conn Holohan (2015) All That Is Solid: Camera and Character Movement in the Domestic Spaces of 1930s Melodrama. [Conference Paper], Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Montreal , 24-MAR-15 - 29-MAR-15. [Details] |
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| (2014) | Television Crime Drama Symposium,
Conn Holohan (2014) Love/Hate as Lyrical Sociology. [Invited Paper], Television Crime Drama Symposium, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire , 27-NOV-14 - 28-NOV-14. [Details] |
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| (2014) | Lifeworlds Conference, NUI Galway,
Conn Holohan (2014) Going to the Wire: Love/Hate as Lyrical Sociology. [Conference Paper], Lifeworlds Conference, NUI Galway, NUI Galway , 28-MAR-14 - 28-MAR-14. [Details] |
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| (2013) | Queens University Film Studies Seminar,
Conn Holohan (2013) In praise of error: cosmopolitan spaces in the films of Claire Denis. [Invited Lecture], Queens University Film Studies Seminar, Queens University Belfast , 28-NOV-13 - 28-NOV-13. [Details] |
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| (2013) | European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies,
Conn Holohan (2013) 9th Annual conference of EFACIS. [Conference Organising Committee Member], European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies, NUI Galway , 05-JUN-13 - 08-JUN-13. [Details] |
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| (2013) | 'From Ego to Eco' Workshop,
Conn Holohan (2013) In praise of error: cosmopolitan spaces in the films of Claire Denis. [Invited Paper], 'From Ego to Eco' Workshop, NUI Galway , 11-OCT-13 - 11-OCT-13. [Details] |
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| (2013) | European Cinema Research Forum,
Conn Holohan (2013) In praise of error: cosmopolitan spaces in the films of Claire Denis. [Conference Paper], European Cinema Research Forum, Edinburgh University , 01-JUL-13 - 03-JUL-13. [Details] |
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| (2013) | Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts , 18th-20th April 2013,
Conn Holohan (2013) No Direction Home: Location and Dislocation in Irish Visual Culture. [Conference Paper], Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts , 18th-20th April 2013, UCC , 18-APR-13 - 20-APR-13. [Details] |
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| (2012) | Mapping Spectral Traces Conference, NUI Galway,
Holohan, Conn (2012) No direction home?: Location and dislocation in Irish visual culture. [Conference Paper], Mapping Spectral Traces Conference, NUI Galway, NUI Galway , 20-APR-12 - 21-APR-12. [Details] |
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| (2012) | European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool,
Holohan, Conn (2012) Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meier's Home. [Conference Paper], European Cinema Research Forum, Edge Hill University, Liverpool, Edge Hill University, Liverpool , 16-JUL-12 - 18-JUL-12. [Details] |
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| (2012) | Alphaville Conference, University College Cork,
Holohan, Conn (2012) Fragile Utopia: between a rock and no-place in Ursula Meier's Home. [Conference Paper], Alphaville Conference, University College Cork, University College Cork , 07-SEP-12 - 09-SEP-12. [Details] |
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| (2011) | Ireland Astray Symposium, St Mary’s University College, London,
Holohan, Conn (2011) No direction home?: Location and dislocation in Irish visual culture. [Conference Paper], Ireland Astray Symposium, St Mary’s University College, London, St Mary’s University College, London , 11-NOV-11 - 13-NOV-11. [Details] |
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| (2011) | I Jornada de Cinema e Literatura Irlandesa, Universidade Federal da Bahia,
Holohan, Conn (2011) No direction home?: Traversing space in Irish Cinema. [Keynote Address], I Jornada de Cinema e Literatura Irlandesa, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil , 06-OCT-11 - 08-OCT-11. [Details] |
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| (2011) | From Jack’s Army to Jedward: Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture,
Conn Holohan and Tony Tracy (2011) Three day international conference. Keynote speaker were Professor Diane Negra and Dr Sean Campbell. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], From Jack’s Army to Jedward: Irish Masculinity and Popular Culture, NUI Galway , 23-SEP-11 - 25-SEP-11. [Details] |
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| (2011) | Irish Film Research Postgraduate Seminar,
Conn Holohan (2011) Postgraduate research conference featuring speakers from Ireland and the UK. Keynote speaker was Professor Rosalind Galt of King's College, London. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Irish Film Research Postgraduate Seminar, NUI Galway , 12-APR-11 - 13-APR-11. [Details] |
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| (2010) | European Cinema Research Forum, University of Exeter,
Conn Holohan (2010) Non-place like home: hitting the road in the former Soviet Union. [Conference Paper], European Cinema Research Forum, University of Exeter, University of Exeter , 02-JUL-10 - 04-JUL-10. [Details] |
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| (2010) | IASIL conference, NUI Maynooth,
Conn Holohan (2010) Urban utopias in Irish Cinema. [Conference Paper], IASIL conference, NUI Maynooth, NUI Maynooth , 26-JUL-10 - 29-JUL-10. [Details] |
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| (2009) | Trinity Postgraduate Seminar,
Conn Holohan (2009) Wrong turns and dead ends: radical spaces in the migrant films of Tony Gatlif and Fatih Akin. [Invited Paper], Trinity Postgraduate Seminar, Trinity College Dublin , 09-APR-09 - 09-APR-09. [Details] |
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| (2009) | Screening the Irish in Britain Conference, Trinity College, Dublin,
Conn Holohan (2009) Utopian Spaces in Migrant Narratives. [Invited Paper], Screening the Irish in Britain Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin , 26-SEP-09 - 26-SEP-09. [Details] |
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| (2009) | American Conference of Irish Studies, NUI Galway,
Conn Holohan (2009) Urban Migrants and Utopian Spaces in Recent Irish Cinema. [Conference Paper], American Conference of Irish Studies, NUI Galway, NUI Galway , 10-JUN-09 - 13-JUN-09. [Details] |
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| (2007) | Contemporary Irish Cinema: Assessment and Perspectives” conference,
Conn Holohan (2007) The politics of sexual identity in contemporary Irish cinema. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Contemporary Irish Cinema: Assessment and Perspectives” conference, Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines, Limoges, France , 22-NOV-07 - 23-NOV-07. [Details] |
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| (2006) | MECCSA postgraduate conference,
Conn Holohan (2006) Symbolism, allegory and the rural spaces of La mala educaciόn. [Conference Paper], MECCSA postgraduate conference, University of Ulster, Coleraine , 22-JUN-06 - 23-JUN-06. [Details] |
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| (2006) | Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar,
Conn Holohan (2006) Space, Identity and the City in Recent Irish and Spanish Cinema. [Conference Paper], Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar, University of Ulster, Coleraine , 04-MAY-06 - 05-MAY-06. [Details] |
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| (2005) | Genre and Irish Cinema Conference , 14-16 March 2005,
Conn Holohan (2005) Police, power and patriarchy – a comparative study of the crime film in Irish and Spanish cinema. [Conference Paper], Genre and Irish Cinema Conference , 14-16 March 2005, University of British Columbia, Vancouver , 14-MAR-05 - 16-MAR-05. [Details] |
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| (2005) | Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar,
Conn Holohan (2005) Police, power and patriarchy – a comparative study of the crime film in Irish and Spanish cinema. [Conference Paper], Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin , 07-MAY-05 - 08-MAY-05. [Details] |
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| (2005) | MECCSA Postgraduate Conference,
Holohan, C. (2005) A comparative approach to Irish cinema. [Conference Paper], MECCSA Postgraduate Conference, Cardiff University , 23-JUN-05 - 24-JUN-05. [Details] |
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| (2013) | The Twentieth Anniversary of the Irish Film Board,
Conn Holohan (2013) The Home of National Cinema. [Invited Paper], The Twentieth Anniversary of the Irish Film Board, Irish Film Institute , 13-APR-13 - 13-APR-13. [Details] |
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| (2012) | Centre for Media Studies, Seminar Series,
Conn Holohan (2012) No Direction Home: Location and Dislocation in Irish visual Culture. [Invited Lecture], Centre for Media Studies, Seminar Series, University of Ulster, Coleraine , 21-MAR-12 - 21-MAR-12. [Details] |
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| (2013) | Tarleton State University Summer School,
Conn Holohan (2013) An introduction to Irish cinema. [Invited Lecture], Tarleton State University Summer School, NUI Galway , 10-JUL-13 - 12-JUL-13. [Details] |
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| (2013) | Spalding University MFA Programme Summer School,
Conn Holohan (2013) The Voice of Irish Cinema. [Invited Lecture], Spalding University MFA Programme Summer School, NUI Galway , 12-JUL-13 - 12-JUL-13. [Details] |
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| (2017) | Flagler College Communications Week,
Conn Holohan (2017) Irish Cinema: Funding Contexts. [Invited Lecture], Flagler College Communications Week, Flagler College, St Augustine, Florida , 07-MAR-17 - 08-MAR-17. [Details] |
Article
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2015) | A Cinematic Geophany: In Praise of Wrong Moves.
Conn Holohan (2015) A Cinematic Geophany: In Praise of Wrong Moves. Arts Council Article [Details] |
Book Review
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2019) | Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film by John David Rhodes - Review.
Conn Holohan (2019) Spectacle of Property: The House in American Film by John David Rhodes - Review. Journal of Cinema and Media Studies Book Review [Details] |
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| (2020) | The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama - Review.
Conn Holohan (2020) The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama - Review. Historical Journal of Film & Television Book Review [Details] |
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| (2014) | Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts by Claire Bracken and Emma Radley (eds.), in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2014).
Conn Holohan (2014) Viewpoints: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Visual Texts by Claire Bracken and Emma Radley (eds.), in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2014). Irish Literary Supplement Book Review [Details] |
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| (2010) | 'Early Irish Cinema by Denis Condon – Review’, Wasafiri, 62 (Summer 2010).
Conn Holohan (2010) 'Early Irish Cinema by Denis Condon – Review’, Wasafiri, 62 (Summer 2010). Book Review [Details] |
Editorship of Journals
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2023) | Reviews Editor, Journal of Popular European Culture.
Conn Holohan (2023) Reviews Editor, Journal of Popular European Culture. Editorship of Journals [Details] |
Film or Broadcast
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2022) | Lost & Found.
Conn Holohan, Mairead Hogan, David Kelly, Charlotte Silke, Marianne Ni Chinneide, Clients of Galway Simon (2022) Lost & Found. Film or Broadcast [Details] |
Review Articles
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2011) | ‘Soldados de Salamina’ Lorenzo Torres Hortenlano (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: Spain. Bristol: Intellect.
Holohan, C. (2011) ‘Soldados de Salamina’ Lorenzo Torres Hortenlano (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: Spain. Bristol: Intellect. Review Articles [Details] |
Special Issue Editor
| Year | Publication | |
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| (2017) | Space and Place in European Cinema, Special Issue of Studies in European Cinema.
Conn Holohan (2017) Space and Place in European Cinema, Special Issue of Studies in European Cinema. Taylor & Francis Special Issue Editor [Details] |
