A talk by Professor Ruth Barton

Fri 8 March 2pm, Martin Hall, Loughborough University (off Epinal Way) Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU.

The discussion will cover films like The Butcher Boy and Angela’s Ashes, and ask how well realist films can represent trauma.

Admission free. All welcome.

Ruth Barton, a lecturer in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, is a highly-regarded expert on Irish film. She is the author of three books on Irish cinema:

• Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation,
• Irish National Cinema,
• Acting Irish in Hollywood: From Fitzgerald to Farrell.

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Map and directions to Martin Hall: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html and http://maps.lboro.ac.uk