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By: Margot Norris
Publisher: Cork University Press
Published: June 2004
Pages: 102
Categories: Literature
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781859182932
ASIN: 1859182933

Ulysses' was not brought to the screen until 1967. Norris discusses the challenges that this difficult novel of the 20th century posed to the filmmaker along with the production and censorship problems that arose 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. "Norris's monograph on the cinematic 'Ulysses' is a penatrating to Cork's series." -- Joseph Kestner, University of Tulsa "James Joyce Quarterly " 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).

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