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- Title
Looking beyond the Mutoscope: Cinematicity in "Nausicaa".
- Authors
Williams, Keith
- Abstract
The sole direct reference to moving picture technology in Ulysses names the mutoscope, hand-cranked alternative to Edison's peepshow kinetoscope which spurred the Lumières to solve the problem of projection with their 1895 Cinématographe. Joyce's reference highlights how "Nausicaa" critiques modernity's "media-cultural imaginary," particularly its objectifying consumerist gaze for both sexes. The mutoscope is framed within a wider cinematic structure which engages with how film culture and narrative had developed by 1922, long after Ulysses ' diegetic present (1904). Hence the overall "cinematicity" of "Nausicaa" epitomizes Joyce's ongoing engagement with moving image media. The 1930s Reisman-Zukofsky film treatment sheds valuable light on this process.
- Subjects
PROBLEM solving; MODERNITY; GAZE; CULTURE; PICTURES
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2024.a935444