Hollywood Dubliners become personal
Joyce’s Gabriel morphs to John Huston in The Dead
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20252255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Azra Ghandeharion (0000-0002-2147-1827, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, corresponding author), Roya Abbaszadeh (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) |
| Editors | Lincoln Geraghty (0000-0001-6624-089X) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1848754 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cogent Arts and Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2331-1983 • E-ISSN: 2331-1983 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23311983.2020.1848754 |
| OpenAlex | W3106416745 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Literary adaptation has been both intriguing and challenging for directors especially when it comes to complicated modernist writers like James Joyce (1882–1941) who is commonly considered unadaptable. First approached by John Huston (1906–1987), Joyce’s famous short story, “The Dead” (1914) came to Hollywood (1987). Unitizing the views of different scholars in the realm of adaptation studies, this paper reveals why the director has changed the emotional features of the main hero, Gabriel, in his last movie. The main gap in adaptation studies is mostly associated with analyzing the works in relation to their main sources rather than scrutinizing them individually. We try to fill this gap by focusing on the film and Huston’s personal life. It is concluded that Huston, the product of a troubled childhood and marital life, recreated Gabriel to portray his personal dilemmas
Art · Art history · Epistemology · HERO · Hollywood · Literature · Performance art · Personal life · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Highly cited | No |
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