Roll Away the Reel World: James Joyce and Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781859184714)

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.

Author: John McCourt
ISBN-10: 1859184715
ISBN-13: 9781859184714
Publisher: Cork University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2010
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 08/01/2008 pg. 18
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/07/2011 pg. 20