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The Crying Game

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Crying Game Information
1,900 words, approx. 6 pages
The Crying Game is a popular and critically acclaimed 1992 Irish film written and directed by Neil Jordan. The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles. The original working title of...


News and Journals
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National Review
The Crying Game.
02/15/1993: 891 words, approx. 3 pages
In Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, Jody, a black British soldier, is held hostage in Northern Ireland by the IRA. He was enticed by a girl, Jude, from a fairground to a deserted spot and, just as he mounted her, nabbed by the...
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Mental Health Nursing
The crying game
03/01/2006: 1,074 words, approx. 4 pages
A recent Speak Up! talked about the possibility that supporting a football team could be detrimental to your mental health, and with football's World Cup just around the corner, the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) has launched an online questionnaire to gauge just how much...
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AP News
The crying game: male vs female tears
10/25/2007: 985 words, approx. 3 pages
"Please, please, please, just give the dog back," Ellen DeGeneres wept on national TV last week. It was a moment that quickly established itself in the pop culture firmament, less for the plight of Iggy the adopted terrier than for the copious crying itself.Setting aside...
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AP News
Black stars featured on new audio Bible
7/12/2007: 329 words, approx. 1 pages
Forest Whitaker, an Oscar winner for his portrayal of ruthless dictator Idi Amin, is reversing direction to play one of the Bible's most beloved figures in a new audio version of the Old Testament.Whitaker is the voice of Moses in "Inspired By ... The Bible...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Kristin Handler
6,571 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Handler argues that "because it takes inadequate account of the way difference has been and is always available as an occasion and an excuse for the inscription of power, the film [The Crying Game ends up displacing the hierarchical relations that obtain between men and reinscribing them in the realm of sexual difference."]
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Critical Essay by Hawley Russell
5,159 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Russell traces the crossing over of race, gender, and sexual categories by the character of Dil in Jordan's The Crying Game, and the cultural implications of our reading of Dil.
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Critical Essay by Jack Boozer, Jr.
4,612 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Boozer, Jr. analyzes how in The Crying Game, "Jordan emphasizes the construction of sexual difference in the context of political ideology and race, and the role of all three in cultural representation generally."
 


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