Roll Away the Reel World

James Joyce and Cinema

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Edited by John McCourt

Type

Studies

Subject

Technique > Adaptation

Keywords

adaptation, literature

Publishing date

2010

Publisher

Cork University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 260 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-85918-471-4

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Book Presentation:
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.

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

Press 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)

See the publisher website: Cork University Press