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Under the Volcano

其他書名	Lowry and the Cinema
出版	University of Alberta, 1968
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tGdWQwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Chapter One of this thesis draws attention to the extent of Malcolm Lowry's early interest and involvement in the real world of the film - particularly in Europe and in Hollywood - and the subsequent influence of the cinema on his literary style. His greatest film script - an adaptation of Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night - as well as a film version of his own short story, The Bravest Boat, were written only after he and his wife had taken up residence in a shack near Vancouver in 1940. These two works, both of which are among the large collection of Malcolm Lowry Papers in the Special Collections Division of the University of British Columbia Library, draw attention to Lowry's own preoccupation with the cinematic techniques which he used in Under the Volcano, a novel written between 1936 and 1945. Chapter Two of the thesis illustrates and analyzes Lowry's characteristic use of cinematic techniques and processes in his handling of visual images and aural rhythms. It draws particular attention to his use of montage. Chapter Three shows that the wheel and the barranca, important visual images in the novel, act in combination as a controlling metaphor. Deriving meaning from the cinematic process itself, the pair of images operates at every level of the novel. The theme of the novel, the modes of perception which characterize the central figures, and the medium itself are fused by this metaphor into an organic and integrated expression which meets many of the demands which critics make of the film.