Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema

by John McCourt

Overview

This book focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre. Leading Joyce and film studies scholars look at cinema's interest in Joyce as seen in important film versions of his work and contemporary films such as American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) and The Departed (Scorsese, 2006). For the most part Ulysses is the preferred text, but stories from Dubliners, as well as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake also provide points of reference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859184714
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	12/31/2010
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

John McCourt is Lecturer in English Literature, Università Roma Tre, and Director, Trieste Joyce School in Trieste.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction: From the Real to the Reel and Back: Explorations into Joyce and Cinema—John McCourt
Part One
1) James Joyce and the Volta Programme—Luke McKernan
2) Dedalus Among the Film Folk: Joyce and the Cinema Volta—Erik Schneider
Part Two
3) Joyce, Early Cinema and the Erotics of Everyday Life—Katherine Mullin
4) The Ghost Walks: Joyce and the Spectres of Silent Cinema—Maria DiBattista
5) Mirages in the Lampglow: Joyce’s ‘Circe’ and Méliès’ Dream Cinema—Philip Sicker
6) Futurist Music Hall and Cinema—Carla Marengo Vaglio
7) Circe’s Costume Changes: Bloom, Fregoli and Early Cinema—Marco Camerani
8) ‘See Ourselves as Others See Us’: Cinematic Seeing and Being in Ulysses—Cleo Hanaway
Part Three
9) JJ/JLG—Louis Armand
10) Tracing Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Huston and Rossellini—Kevin Barry
11) Odysseys of Sound and Image: ‘Cinematicity’ and the Ulysses Adaptations—Keith Williams
12) James Joyce, Subliminal Screenwriter?—Jesse Meyers
Appendix: Volta Filmography—Luke McKernan
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Writings on the author's involvement with early film, including Dublin's Volta Cinema; also considers how his writings have shaped the work of avant-garde and mainstream directors."

The Chronicle of Higher Education

"Writings on the author's involvement with early film, including Dublin's Volta Cinema; also considers how his writings have shaped the work of avant-garde and mainstream directors."

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