Somewhere to come back to: The filmic journeys of John T. Davis

Irish Studies Review

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 167-177

  O'Brien, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 84909176172     PISSN: 09670882     EISSN: 14699303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09670880120062740     Document Type: Note

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1. Sheehy, Ted. 1996. 'The Windhover'. Film Ireland, October/November: 17 Davis, quoted in
2. Davis, John T., 1993. Works, Edited by: O'Regan, John. 13Gandon Editions. Davis, quoted in
3. Maillot, Agnes. 2000. 'Punk on Celluloid: John Davis's Shell Shock Rock (1979)'. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 20 (3) August: 382
4. 1966. Don't Look Back USA Davis's first contact with D. A. Pennebaker was when he saw him filming Bob Dylan on the streets of Belfast in 1966 during the making of
5. O'Regan, ed. Works 8
6. O'Regan, ed. Works 8
7. Lavery, Dermot. 1992. 'Power in the Lens'. Film Ireland, November/December: 19 Davis, quoted in
8. Barnouw, Erik. 1993. Documentary: A History of the Non-fiction Film, Oxford University Press. Excellent introductions to documentary film are provided by
9. Barsam, Richard. 1992. Non-fiction Film, Indiana University Press.
10. Corner, John. 1996. The Art of Record: A Critical Introduction to Documentary, Manchester University Press.
11. Nichols, Bill. 1991. Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Indiana University Press. More detailed theoretical studies of questions of form and content include
12. Winston, Brian. 1995. Claiming the Real: The Documentary Film Revisited: Griersonian Documentary and its Legitimations, BFI.
13. 1997. How Far Home, Brendan J. Byrne. He has contributed to documentaries including
14. 1997. Hidden Treasures, Loopline Films. and series including, and shot footage for television news
15. Barnouw. Documentary 348
16. Lavery. “ 'Power in the Lens' ”. 20 Davis, quoted in
17. Lavery. “ 'Power in the Lens' ”. 21
18. Sheehy. “ 'The Windhover" ”. 17
19. Sheehy. “ 'The Windhover" ”. 17
20. McIlroy, Brian. 1998. Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, 149Flicks Books.
21. O'Regan, ed. Works 17 Davis, quoted in
22. McIlroy. Shooting to Kill 151
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26. Davis directed one other film between Hobo and The Uncle Jack, namely Atlantic (1993), a portrait of the Atlantic record company, but his attention was at least partly deflected by the development of The Uncle Jack, which took place between 1992 and 1996
27. Nichols. Representing Reality 60
28. Lane, Jim. 1993. 'Notes on Theory and the Autobiographical Documentary Film in America'. Wide Angle, 15 (3) July: 22–23.
29. Rockett, Kevin, Gibbons, Luke, and Hill, John. 1988. Cinema and Ireland, Routledge. Quinn is a very different film maker and Atlantean is itself a unique work of Irish non-fiction film which I do not have space to discuss here. For further detail on the films of Bob Quinn see
30. Sheehy. “ 'The Windhover' ”. 17 Davis, quoted in
31. McCracken, Kathleen. 1999. “ 'Poetic Documentary: The Films of John T. Davis' ”. In Contemporary Irish Cinema from The Quiet Man to Dancing at Lughnasa, Edited by: MacKillop, James. 14Syracuse University Press.
32. Pettitt, Lance. 2000. Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation, 218Manchester University Press.
33. Lavery. “ 'Power in the Lens' ”. 21 Davis, quoted in
34. Pettitt. Screening Ireland 216
35. Lane. “ 'Notes on Theory and the Autobiographical Documentary' ”. 32
36. Kiberd, Declan. 1995. Inventing Inland: The Literature of the Modem Nation, 561Jonathan Cape.