James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley
Reviews and Awards
"Readers and critics interested in contemporary critical and theoretical approaches to art and literature will certainly be gratified by Cleo Hanaway-Oakley's book ... James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film offers readers thoughtful insights into Joyce's strategy as they relate to the philosophical dimensions of showing." --Margot Norris, James Joyce Literary Supplement
"Cleo Hanaway-Oakley's short, but rigorous study James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film responds to what she sees as a lack of engagement with phenomenology in literary studies in comparison to film studies. Choosing not to highlight analogous techniques between Joycean modernism and film, or draw relationships of influence between Joyce, film, or phenomenology, Hanaway-Oakley instead carefully reveals and illumines what she delineates as 'parallel philosophies latent within early cinema spectatorship, within early films themselves, and within Joyce's texts and the experience of reading Joyce'stexts' (p. 3)." -- The Year's Work in English Studies
"Reading Joyce back through a highly original synthesis of phenomenology, early cinema and film theory, this is a genuinely comparative study that challenges longstanding ideas around modernism and film, and points the way towards future studies of literary modernism that bring together history, philosophy and non- textual media forms." --Peter Adkins, Textual Practice
"impressively researched, methodically-organised and, above all, admirably readable ... [this] monograph deserves to become a milestone in Joyce and film studies and I cannot recommend it highly enough." -- Keith Williams, James Joyce Broadsheet