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Film and Literary Modernism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443866446
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Film and Literary ModernismDDC classification:
  • 791.436
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.3 -- .F495 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. - CITY SYMPHONY FILMS -- A CITY SYMPHONY -- EXPERIMENTAL MODERNISM IN CITY SYMPHONY FILMS -- LYRICAL CITY -- II. - PERSPECTIVES -- TO SEE IS TO KNOW -- TOMATOES ANOTHER DAY -- RELUCTANT SWEDISH MODERNISM -- SEDUCING MODERNISM -- MODERNISM, MEMORY AND CINEMA -- III. - WRITERS -- "THE NERVES IN PATTERNS ON A SCREEN" -- MODERNISM, FILM, AND THE MORAL VISION OF JAMES AGEE -- RESISTING THE PULL OF MECHANIZATION -- RACING TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT -- "LEAVE DEATH TO THE PROFESSIONALS -- IV. - DIRECTORS -- CHAPLIN'S SOCIAL TEXT -- EISENSTEIN'S GENERAL LINE -- MONTAGE AND MEMORY -- HITCHCOCK FROM UK TO US -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Summary: In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. S. Eliot, time and stream.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. - CITY SYMPHONY FILMS -- A CITY SYMPHONY -- EXPERIMENTAL MODERNISM IN CITY SYMPHONY FILMS -- LYRICAL CITY -- II. - PERSPECTIVES -- TO SEE IS TO KNOW -- TOMATOES ANOTHER DAY -- RELUCTANT SWEDISH MODERNISM -- SEDUCING MODERNISM -- MODERNISM, MEMORY AND CINEMA -- III. - WRITERS -- "THE NERVES IN PATTERNS ON A SCREEN" -- MODERNISM, FILM, AND THE MORAL VISION OF JAMES AGEE -- RESISTING THE PULL OF MECHANIZATION -- RACING TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT -- "LEAVE DEATH TO THE PROFESSIONALS -- IV. - DIRECTORS -- CHAPLIN'S SOCIAL TEXT -- EISENSTEIN'S GENERAL LINE -- MONTAGE AND MEMORY -- HITCHCOCK FROM UK TO US -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. S. Eliot, time and stream.

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