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Free Film Screening: Hunger - With a talk by Marc Mulholland, Professor of Modern History, Oxford
Twenty years on from the Good Friday Agreement, we look back at the Troubles in Northern Ireland with this screening of Steve McQueen’s acclaimed debut feature film Hunger, featuring a bravura performance from Michael Fassbender as IRA volunteer and Maze Prison hunger striker Bobby Sands.
The film unflinchingly depicts the struggle of the Irish republican prisoners who fought to regain political status after it was revoked by the British government, as well as their crimes of civil violence.
Hunger won McQueen the prestigious Cannes Caméra d’Or award for first-time filmmakers, and was voted best film of 2008 by Sight and Sound.
Marc Mulholland, Professor of Modern History at Oxford, will give an introductory talk to accompany the screening. Prof Mulholland was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh and has written widely on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Praise for Hunger
“Shockingly immediate and philosophically reflective, Hunger is an indelibly moving tribute to what makes us human”
Rolling Stone
For full details and to reserve your place, please visit: www.fljs.org/Hunger
Date:
23 May 2018, 19:00
Venue:
Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details:
Auditorium
Speaker:
Marc Mulholland (Professor of Modern History, Oxford)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
