{"id":9034,"date":"2014-09-23T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:32:10","slug":"five-irish-films-for-your-netflix-queue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=9034","title":{"rendered":"Five Irish films for your Netflix queue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>Who says you have to stick with American-made movies this Oscar season? Terry Byrne, associate professor of communication studies, specializes in movies from the Emerald Isle. Here are his top picks.<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">1.<\/span> <em><strong>Michael Collins.<\/strong><\/em> This retelling of Irish independence and civil war is \u201can aspect of Irish history that most Americans, including Irish Americans, know nothing about,\u201d Byrne says.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9035 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/In-America-dvd.jpg\" alt=\"In-America-dvd\" width=\"150\" height=\"213\" \/>2.<\/span> <em><strong>In America.<\/strong><\/em> Byrne likes this one\u00a0 because it\u2019s \u201ca 20th-century rewrite of the Irish immigrant story with a strong emotional hook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">3.<\/span> <em><strong>Disco Pigs.<\/strong><\/em> \u201cIt\u2019s very Irish,\u201d Byrne says of this intense psychological study, \u201cbut also very 21st-century\u2014there\u2019s nothing cute or quaint here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">4.<\/span> <em><strong>The Butcher Boy.<\/strong> <\/em>This grisly drama is critical of traditional Irish Catholic culture. \u201cThat\u2019s something Irish Americans need to understand,\u201d Byrne adds. \u201cIreland is moving away from the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">5.<\/span> <em><strong>Kisses.<\/strong> <\/em>\u201cThe Irish don\u2019t like happy endings,\u201d Byrne says. \u201cThey don\u2019t trust them. Being an Irish film, there is no happy ending here\u2014but it\u2019s as upbeat as they get.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says you have to stick with American-made movies this Oscar season? Terry Byrne, associate professor of communication studies, specializes in movies from the Emerald Isle. Here are his top picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":9035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,74,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2014","category-the-need-to-know-basis","category-on-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}