![]() With Passages from Finnegans Wake Bute was the first to adapt a work of James Joyce to film and was honored for this project at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 as best debut. Joyces Kaleidoscope: An Invitation to Finnegans Wake Kitcher, Philip Published by Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN 10: 0195321022 ISBN 13: 9780195321029 Seller: Gleebooks, Sydney, Australia Seller Rating: Contact seller Book First Edition Signed Used - Hardcover Condition: As New US 32.04 Convert currency US 25. ![]() ![]() In the transformation from Joyce's polyglot prose to the necessarily concrete imagery of actors and sets, Passages discovers a truly oneiric film style, a weirdly post-New Wave rediscovery of Surrealism, and in her panoply of allusion - 1950s dance crazes, atomic weaponry, ICBMs, and television all make appearances - she finds a cinematic approximation of the novel's nearly impenetrable vertically compressed structure. There are currently no copies of this film availabe on VHS or DVD.Ī half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only feature. Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake The player will show in this paragraph Passages from Finnegans Wake – 1965-67 UbuWeb Film & Video: Mary Ellen Bute - Passages from Finnegans Wake – 1965-67 ![]()
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