Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

“Passages is a trove of superimpositions, flashbacks, varied angles, slow  motion, intercutting, rapid motion, stop action, negative images, documentary  footage, and finally sub-titles … It brings in television, the H-bomb, the  twist, interplanetary rockets. Bute believed that Joyce would have accepted the  modern elements in a film based on his 1939 novel, and she even quoted a line  from Finnegans Wake that mentions television.” Lillian Schiff, “The Education of  Mary Ellen Bute” in Film Library Quarterly 17:2 (1984). Rpt., abr. in Women and  Animation: A Compendium. Ed. Jayne Pilling. London: British Film Institute,  1992.