Roll Away the Reel World traces Joyce’s involvement in early modern cinema, his thematic and formal borrowing from this genre, and the impact of his writings on later avant-garde and mainstream cinema ranging from Godard to Rossellini to Scorsese.
Written by an international group of leading Joyce and film studies scholars, the first section of the book provides a revealing account of the writer’s central involvement in 1909-10 in setting up the Volta cinema, the first specifically-designated cinematic space opened in Dublin.
The main body of the book traces aesthetic and structural links between Joyce and film, offering chapters on the birth of modern cinema as seen from Joyce’s position in Trieste, a surprising vibrant “capital” of cinema, examining the impact on Joyce of early film makers such as the Lumière brothers, Cretinetti, and Meliès, and assessing the influence of Joyce’s writings on contemporary film directors. The presence of Joyce’s Ulysses is traced in films such as American Beauty (Mendes, 1999) and The Departed (Scorsese, 2006) while various film treatments of Joyce’s work – such as John Huston’s The Dead – are also analysed.
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