{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-malcolm-lowry","title":"The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry","description":"\u003cmeta name=\"generator\" content=\"HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org\"\u003e\u003ctitle\u003e\u003c\/title\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo a remarkable extent the filmscript of \u003cem\u003eTender is theNight,\u003c\/em\u003e which Malcolm Lowry wrote in 1949-50 with the help ofMargerie Bonner Lowry, is less an adaptation of F. ScottFitzgerald’s novel than an extension of Lowry’s own fiction. AsMiguel Mota and Paul Tiessen show, Malcolm Lowry’s script containsimportant passages which are really “cinematic” restatementsof parts of Lowry’s novel \u003cem\u003eLunar Caustic\u003c\/em\u003e, and of shortstories such as “Through the Panama” and “StrangeComfort Afforded by the Profession.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editors note also the many direct and indirect allusions toelements from Lowry’s master-work, \u003cem\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/em\u003e(1947), a novel that is regarded by many critics as one of the most“cinematic” prose works of the twentieth century. A closestudy of the text reveals that Lowry took on the Tender is the Nightproject partly as a means of reopening his \u003cem\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/em\u003enarrative, of re-exploring its plot and problems and its characters andthemes, and of carrying as far as possible the “cinematic”style he had begun to examine in that work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLowry’s Tender is the Night manuscript is important, then, notonly as a completed, 455-page text in its own right but also as a texthaving a direct bearing on Lowry’s own reading of \u003cem\u003eUnder theVolcano\u003c\/em\u003e and of his sense of artistic direction after that work.Indeed, the editors consider the significance of the filmscript as akey - hitherto almost entirely overlooked - to understanding hisprojected multiple volume work, \u003cem\u003eThe Voyage That NeverEnds.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis scholarly edition of Lowry’s script presents 38 passages ofvarying length - from less than one page to over 100 pages - in whichLowry writes with a freedom and creativity that lead to a textnarratively and stylistically quite separate and distinct fromFitzgerald’s original. It excludes passages where Lowry adheresmore or less slavishly, at 37 intervals, to Fitzgeralds' novel,though it provides brief narrative summaries of and comments on thoseomitted sections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLowry’s achievement in his filmscript demonstrates the nature ofhis life-long commitment to and extensive knowledge of theinternational cinema from the 1910s to the 1950s and also the nature ofhis view of the novelist’s responsibility to participate in thedevelopment of film as an art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe script also illustrates Lowry’s relationship with F. ScottFitzgerald as one in a series of literary kinships, and as the editorspoint out, the work becomes a criticism and analysis of bothFitzgerald’s novel and of Fitzgerald himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Miguel Mota","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43572643070134,"sku":"9780774856737","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774856737_c2d4162b-739d-4a00-b987-0b129c34e4de.jpg?v=1727875377","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cinema-of-malcolm-lowry","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}