A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (film)

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist (1977 film) title frame.jpg
Opening film credit
Directed by Joseph Strick
Screenplay by Judith Rascoe
Based on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Produced by
  • Betty Botley
  • Richard Hallinan
Starring
CinematographyStuart Hetherington
Edited by Lesley Walker
Music by Stanley Myers
Production
company
Ulysses Film Production Ltd.
Distributed by
Release date
  • September 1977 (1977-09)(UK)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryIreland
LanguageEnglish

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a 1977 film adaptation of Irish novelist James Joyce's 1916 novel of the same name, directed by Joseph Strick. [1] [2] It portrays the growth of consciousness of Joyce's semi-autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, as a boy and later as a university student in late nineteenth-century Dublin. [3] [4]

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References

  1. "A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 May 2018.
  2. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Internet Movie Database. Retrieved: 2012-05-12.
  3. Canby, Vincent (22 April 1979). "Screen: Strick's Version Of 'Portrait of an Artist'" via NYTimes.com.
  4. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977) - Joseph Strick - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.

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