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New York: Expanding Cinema [script published by arrangement with Viking Press], 1965. First Separate Edition. 11 x 8 1/2-inch leaves in an 11 1/2 x 9-inch folder. [4],58,[3] pp. Leaves in printed blue metal tab folder. Fine. PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE was the final film produced and directed by Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983), a pioneer in experimental film and animation. Bute spent much of her early career developing a style of "visual music" in film, synchronizing abstract images and music. PASSAGES, a film treatment of FINNEGANS WAKE using Joyce's original language, was largely a live-action piece but incorporated animation, double exposures, and various other unconventional visual methods. UbuWeb describes it as follows: "A 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. In the transformation from Joyce's polyglot prose to the necessarily…
Read More Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Original screenplay for the 1966 film) by Mary Ellen Bute (director, screenwriter); James Joyce (novel); Romana Javitz, Mary Manning, Ted Nemeth (screenwriter); Martin J. Kelley, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell (starring) - 1966
by Mary Ellen Bute (director, screenwriter); James Joyce (novel); Romana Javitz, Mary Manning, Ted Nemeth (screenwriter); Martin J. Kelley, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell (starring)
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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Original screenplay for the 1966 film)
by Mary Ellen Bute (director, screenwriter); James Joyce (novel); Romana Javitz, Mary Manning, Ted Nemeth (screenwriter); Martin J. Kelley, Jane Reilly, Peter Haskell (starring)
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Los Angeles: Expanding Cinema, 1966. Shooting final for the 1966 film. Copy belonging to actor Peter Haskell, with his manuscript annotations throughout and his shooting schedule laid in.
Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal, lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband, Ted Nemeth, were longtime collaborators, and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965, it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film.
Shot on location in New York City and Dublin.
Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 4, 1963 and December 3, 1962, noted as Shooting Final, with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute, Romana Javitz, and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication, with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding.
Mary Ellen Bute's final film, and one of the only cinematic adaptations of James Joyce's masterfully complex work of fiction, "Finnegans Wake." Shot over a two year period, Bute was tasked with transforming Joyce's impenetrable prose without losing any of the work's surreal, lyrical essence. The subsequent film maintains the original novel's oneiric style. Bute and her husband, Ted Nemeth, were longtime collaborators, and Nemeth worked as both cinematographer and producer of the film. In 1965, it was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as Best Debut and remains Bute's sole feature length film.
Shot on location in New York City and Dublin.
Brown untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated March 4, 1963 and December 3, 1962, noted as Shooting Final, with credits for screenwriters Mary Ellen Bute, Romana Javitz, and T. J. Nemeth Jr and editor A.I.M.S. Street. 148 leaves, with last page of text numbered 139. Mimeograph duplication, with onionskin revision pages throughout. Pages Very Good plus, wrapper Very Good plus. Some pages detaching and wrapper slightly cracked. Bound internally with prong binding.
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- Publisher Expanding Cinema
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- Date Published 1966
- Keywords Film Scripts | Women Directors | Women Screenwriters | Films with Literary Sources | 1960s Cinema | Cannes Film Festival
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PASSAGES FROM JAMES JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE : A FILM BY EXPANDING CINEMA : DEDICATED TO FRANCES STELOFF [cover title]
by [Joyce, James; Mary Ellen Bute (script treatment)]
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