Description: This title focuses on Joyce's interest and involvement in early modern cinema and his subsequent thematic and formal borrowing for this genre. It looks at cinema's interest in Joyce as seen in important film versions of his work.
Brief description: John McCourt is Lecturer in English Literature, Universita Roma Tre, and Director, Trieste Joyce School in Trieste.
Review Quotes:
The book as a whole is a thorough charting of Joyce's cinematic connections, beginning with a highly informative account of the early programming of the Volta cinema venture by Luke McKernan and continuing with a detailed account, the most detailed yet, of the entire Volta by that fine researcher Erik Schneider. [...] Its title, Roll Away the Reel World, of course from Finnegans Wake, includes a reference to rolls of film which are unrolled as a film is shown. This book also unrolls the fascinating, complicated relations between its two subjects.
--Terence Killeen, James Joyce Centre "The Irish Times"