Screen Writing the Border: Eugene McCabe, RTÉ, and the Victims Trilogy

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dc.creatorPettitt, Lance
dc.date2022-12-09
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-20T13:37:06Z
dc.date.available2023-02-20T13:37:06Z
dc.descriptionThis essay explores the images and settings of the border narratives in Eugene McCabe’s television screenplays for his Victims trilogy, a three-part series broadcast by RTÉ in 1976. The series was based on McCabe’s own short stories, “Cancer,” “Heritage,” and “Victims”—which became known as the “Fermanagh trilogy”—written separately in the 1970s but published collectively as Christ in the Fields (1993). The essay argues that living on and writing out of his borderlands farm, near Clones, Co. Monaghan, McCabe experienced a condition that I term “borderliness,” which is structured into his writing about this area and the region more widely. I identify this condition by the presence of four thematic tropes that echo and interlace with each other across his screenplays. Making use of archival research in RTÉ, the essay analyzes draft script and screen realization, and supporting production material, focusing on the central, pivotal episode, Heritage, before it reaches its conclusion by drawing on adaptation theory and the conceit of the palimpsest to compare the screenplay and prose fiction versions. (LP)en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/12095
dc.identifier10.30608/HJEAS/2022/28/2/4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/345932
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadóen-US
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/12095/10690
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2022 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studiesen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022)en-US
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectIrish Borderen-US
dc.subjectTV filmsen-US
dc.subjectborderlinessen-US
dc.subjectscreenwritingen-US
dc.subjectTroublesen-US
dc.titleScreen Writing the Border: Eugene McCabe, RTÉ, and the Victims Trilogyen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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