The Butcher Boy

by Colin MacCabe

Book Overview

* Lucid and accessible style makes the series appealing to the general reader

* Liberally illustrated throughout with stills from the film under discussion

* Collaboration between Cork University Press and the Film Institute of Ireland.



The Butcher Boy is perhaps the finest film to have come out of Ireland. Although it breaks clearly with the banal canons of realism, it is nonetheless the most realistic of Irish films...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859182860
• ISBN13: 9781859182864
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 7.5"