Ulysses

by Margot Norris

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781859182932
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Publication date:	09/30/2004
Series:	Ireland into Film Series , #8
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.40(h) x (d)

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).

Keith Hopper teaches Literature and Film Studies for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education and for St Clare’s International College, Oxford. He is general editor of the Ireland into Film series (2001-2007).

Gráinne Humphreys is image editor for the Series. She is Head of Education at the Irish Film Institute.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	viii
	Acknowledgements	ix
1	James Joyce, Drama and Cinema	1
2	Joseph Strick and the Modern Avant-Garde	15
3	The Literary Challenges of Ulysses	30
4	Ulysses in a Cinematic Medium	47
5	Joseph Strick's Ulysses, Ireland and Dublin	72
	Credits	88
	Notes	90
	Bibliography	100

Editorial Reviews

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

"Norris's monograph on the cinematic 'Ulysses' is a penatrating to Cork's series."

James Joyce Quarterly - Joseph Kestner

"Norris's monograph on the cinematic 'Ulysses' is a penatrating to Cork's series."

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."

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