Áine O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 2919033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Áine O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Áine |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN Á |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9527-4076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond Breakdown
Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, therefore attract disproportionate attention despite focusing scholarly enquiry on things that no longer function as infrastructure. This article seeks to escape this impasse through analysing cultural artefacts for evidence of processes which are inconspi…
Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship
Contemporary Europe – ridden by social, political and economic crises, overlaid onto colonial and imperial trajectories, and shaken by the shockwaves generated by Brexit and wide scale human displacement – has become a space in which citizenship and belonging are contested, disrupted, performed and produced anew. Art, Migration, and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenshipexplores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the per…
Central Park and its Provision
In Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary, Jonathan Kahana paraphrases Hannah Arendt as follows: ‘Public things do not just appear, in some quasi-natural event, but are the result and legacy of human fabrication, of work’. Through a detailed interpretation of Frederick Wiseman’s Central Park (1990), this essay asks what it means for a film to register and document this fabrication, and how the fact of provision can be made presen…
Cinema’s natural aesthetics
Energy and eventhood
“Energy and Eventhood” considers the relationship between infrastructure and the cinematic set piece. It proposes a working definition of the set piece as a distinctly (and perhaps excessively) effortful passage or sequence, and reflects on the tendency for narrative films to incorporate infrastructural sites and structures—such as bridges, dams and pipelines—into such set pieces. A number of writers on infrastructure, as both a cultural phenomen…
Film and the Natural Environment
Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. This volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance our understanding of three key film-studies topics—narrative, genre, and national cinema. It does so by drawing on examples from a broad historical and …
Transactions with the World
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the "New Hollywood" films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, …
When a film remembers its filming
In film studies, the zoom is often thought of as a technique relating to thought and attention, removed from and irrelevant to a film's grounded, spatial identity. However, by making visible the physical compromises involved in the act of filming, the zoom can also draw our attention to the physical circumstances of a production's existence in the pro-filmic world. The present article argues that this quality has been overlooked in writing on the…
Voice’, listening and social justice
This article foregrounds the methodological and curatorial concerns of a cross-sectoral public media programme titled the ‘Forum on Migration and Communication’ (FOMACS), which produces film, photographic, digital storytelling, print media and radio stories on the topic of migration into Ireland. Framing two key FOMACS projects using animation and digital storytelling with young children and asylum seekers, this article centrally engages with an …
Kurdish Lyrical Protest
There is a dearth of literature on the diasporic performance and circulation of Kurdish music. In response, this article foregrounds the thematic of acoustic memory and migration in the production of a performative ethnographic documentary about the exiled Kurdish singer and composer, Muhamed Abbas Bahram, one of many accomplished Kurdish musicians residing in Western Europe. The title of the documentary, Silent Song, alludes to a poem written in…
Marketing and Managing Colonial Spectacle South as National History
Research Article| January 01 1996 Marketing and Managing Colonial Spectacle South as National History: In the Belly of the Archive Áine O’Brien Áine O’Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (1): 103–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Áine O’Brien; Marketing and Managing Colonial…
Transactions with the World
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the "New Hollywood" films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, …
Film and the Natural Environment
Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. This volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance our understanding of three key film-studies topics—narrative, genre, and national cinema. It does so by drawing on examples from a broad historical and …
Voice’, listening and social justice
This article foregrounds the methodological and curatorial concerns of a cross-sectoral public media programme titled the ‘Forum on Migration and Communication’ (FOMACS), which produces film, photographic, digital storytelling, print media and radio stories on the topic of migration into Ireland. Framing two key FOMACS projects using animation and digital storytelling with young children and asylum seekers, this article centrally engages with an …
Cinema’s natural aesthetics
Kurdish Lyrical Protest
There is a dearth of literature on the diasporic performance and circulation of Kurdish music. In response, this article foregrounds the thematic of acoustic memory and migration in the production of a performative ethnographic documentary about the exiled Kurdish singer and composer, Muhamed Abbas Bahram, one of many accomplished Kurdish musicians residing in Western Europe. The title of the documentary, Silent Song, alludes to a poem written in…
Marketing and Managing Colonial Spectacle South as National History
Research Article| January 01 1996 Marketing and Managing Colonial Spectacle South as National History: In the Belly of the Archive Áine O’Brien Áine O’Brien Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (1): 103–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Áine O’Brien; Marketing and Managing Colonial…
Kurdish Lyrical Protest
There is a dearth of literature on the diasporic performance and circulation of Kurdish music. In response, this article foregrounds the thematic of acoustic memory and migration in the production of a performative ethnographic documentary about the exiled Kurdish singer and composer, Muhamed Abbas Bahram, one of many accomplished Kurdish musicians residing in Western Europe. The title of the documentary, Silent Song, alludes to a poem written in…
Voice’, listening and social justice
This article foregrounds the methodological and curatorial concerns of a cross-sectoral public media programme titled the ‘Forum on Migration and Communication’ (FOMACS), which produces film, photographic, digital storytelling, print media and radio stories on the topic of migration into Ireland. Framing two key FOMACS projects using animation and digital storytelling with young children and asylum seekers, this article centrally engages with an …
When a film remembers its filming
In film studies, the zoom is often thought of as a technique relating to thought and attention, removed from and irrelevant to a film's grounded, spatial identity. However, by making visible the physical compromises involved in the act of filming, the zoom can also draw our attention to the physical circumstances of a production's existence in the pro-filmic world. The present article argues that this quality has been overlooked in writing on the…
Transactions with the World
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the "New Hollywood" films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, …
Film and the Natural Environment
Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before. But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution. This volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance our understanding of three key film-studies topics—narrative, genre, and national cinema. It does so by drawing on examples from a broad historical and …
Energy and eventhood
“Energy and Eventhood” considers the relationship between infrastructure and the cinematic set piece. It proposes a working definition of the set piece as a distinctly (and perhaps excessively) effortful passage or sequence, and reflects on the tendency for narrative films to incorporate infrastructural sites and structures—such as bridges, dams and pipelines—into such set pieces. A number of writers on infrastructure, as both a cultural phenomen…
Cinema’s natural aesthetics
Central Park and its Provision
In Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary, Jonathan Kahana paraphrases Hannah Arendt as follows: ‘Public things do not just appear, in some quasi-natural event, but are the result and legacy of human fabrication, of work’. Through a detailed interpretation of Frederick Wiseman’s Central Park (1990), this essay asks what it means for a film to register and document this fabrication, and how the fact of provision can be made presen…
Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship
Contemporary Europe – ridden by social, political and economic crises, overlaid onto colonial and imperial trajectories, and shaken by the shockwaves generated by Brexit and wide scale human displacement – has become a space in which citizenship and belonging are contested, disrupted, performed and produced anew. Art, Migration, and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenshipexplores the contribution of migrant and refugee artists to the per…
Beyond Breakdown
Alternation between mundane invisibility and spectacular foregrounding is a critical touchstone of infrastructural aesthetics. Infrastructure failures, which often mediate between these states, therefore attract disproportionate attention despite focusing scholarly enquiry on things that no longer function as infrastructure. This article seeks to escape this impasse through analysing cultural artefacts for evidence of processes which are inconspi…
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