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Eye Witness: Memorialising Humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger

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Approaches McQueen’s film Hunger as a ‘humanist’ intervention in retrospective discussions of the conflict in Northern Ireland that successfully avoids political partisanship. Explores the aesthetics and politics of the film, which centres on the 1981 hunger strike and death in the Maze Prison/Long Kesh of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.
Title: Eye Witness: Memorialising Humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger
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Approaches McQueen’s film Hunger as a ‘humanist’ intervention in retrospective discussions of the conflict in Northern Ireland that successfully avoids political partisanship.
Explores the aesthetics and politics of the film, which centres on the 1981 hunger strike and death in the Maze Prison/Long Kesh of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.

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