期刊名称：Estudios Irlandeses : Journal of Irish Studies
电子版ISSN：1699-311X
出版年度：2013
期号：8
页码：105-113
出版社：Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses
摘要：The following essay analyses Urszula Antoniak's film Nothing Personal with a view to determining how the Irish-Dutch co-production engages with previously defined ways of understanding Ireland. The film acknowledges the long tradition of representing the country as modernity's other by drawing strongly on romantic myths about Ireland. At the same time, however, it subtly undermines the authenticity of the vision it presents and foregrounds the projections which are at work in its construction. As the film alludes to and eventually disrupts generic conventions, the foreign can be seen to explode any simplistic formula and elude the grasp of myth. Ultimately, Nothing Personal aims to situate the othering of Ireland in a wider context and to draw attention to a recurring pattern in European approaches to foreignness
关键词：Nothing Personal (Antoniak 2009); romanticism; myth of the west; Irish co-productions; ;romantic comedy; horror film; Winterreise (Schubert and Müller).
