Dr. Debbie Ging is a lecturer in the School of Communications, Dublin City University. Her research focuses on all aspects of gender and sexuality in the media and, in particular, on masculinity in film. She is co-editor of Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques, Resources (Manchester University Press, 2009) and author of Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).