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Joycean Frames: Film and the Fiction of James Joyce
Burkdall, Thomas L. (Author)
ISBN: 1582433151
New York and London: Routledge Publishers
Published 01 MAY 2001
Hardcover, $75.00 (160p)

James Joyce Quarterly, Winter 2001,

Reviewed by Philip Sicker, Fordham University

 

 

This first book-length study of Joyce and cinema breaks fresh ground….

Within the span of a hundred pages, this elegantly compressed study provides a comprehensive assessment of prior work in the field, offers a synoptic overview of the many filmic dimensions of Joyce’s work, and presents compelling textual evidence of Joyce’s deepening interest in motion-picture theory and semiotics.

A genuinely satisfying and intelligently focused critical study….