How the cinema influenced James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’

Anyone with an interest in cinema likely knows the story of L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat, the 50-second short film which, in 1895, was so astoundingly unfamiliar that, when the titular train came chugging along the tracks towards the lens of the Lumiere brother’s camera, the unsuspecting Parisian audience fled from their seats, fearing that the vehicle was about to rip through the projection fabric as though it were a pane of glass.

When approached from a historical perspective, the brilliance of James Joyce’s Ulysses owes a lot to the advent of cinema.

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