Ulysses (Ireland into Film) - Softcover

Norris, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859182933 ISBN 13: 9781859182932

Publisher: Cork University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Margot Norris discusses the challenges that Ulysses, one of the greatest and most difficult novels of the twentieth century, posed to the filmmaker, along with the production and censorship problems that Strick encountered before the film was released to great contemporary critical acclaim.
James Joyce, interested in drama from his youth, encountered early Italian cinema in Trieste and subsequently worked to establish the first movie-house in Dublin in 1909. He eventually discussed his cinematographic writing techniques with the great Russian filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein. But although Joyce considered the possibilities of filming his famous 1922 novel at various times in his life, Ulysses was not brought to the screen until independent filmmaker Joseph Strick released his adaptation in 1967. Margot Norris discusses the challenges that Ulysses, one of the greatest and most difficult novels of the twentieth century, posed to the filmmaker, along with the production and censorship problems that Strick encountered before the film was released to great contemporary critical acclaim. Though rigorously faithful to Joyce’s language, Strick’s decision to set the story in 1960s Dublin subtly shifted its political focus while producing an intensified humanistic interpretation of Joyce’s novel.

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About the Author

Margot Norris is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include "The Decentered Universe of Finnegans Wake" (1976), "Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence" (1985), "Joyce’s Web" (1992), "Writing War in the Twentieth Century" (2000) and "Suspicious Readings of Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’" (2003).

Review

"Norris's monograph on the cinematic 'Ulysses' is a penatrating to Cork's series." (Joseph Kestner, University of Tulsa James Joyce Quarterly)

Review of the Ireland into Film series: "Each writer has also done an impressive amount of new archive research, which greatly enhances the series' value as fim history and film research. The volumes give full production details and where possible, contain good background interviews with writers and directors...Each volume is lavishly illustrated so that as well as providing good detailed information on the films and an engaged debate about adaptation in general, the series is also an excellent value for the collector." (Cineaste)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1859182933
• ISBN 13: 9781859182932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98