Cinepoetry : Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (505 pages)
- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics Series .
- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics Series .
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Cinema as Imaginary Medium in French Poetry -- PART ONE: The Early Poetic Sensorium of the Apparatus -- 1. Mallarmé Unfolds the Cinématographe -- 2. The Pen-Camera: Raymond Roussel's Freeze-Frame Panorama -- 3. Le Film surnaturel: Cocteau's Immersive Writing -- PART TWO: Telepresence of the Marvelous: Cinepoetic Theories in the 1920s -- 4. Jean Epstein's Invention of Cinepoetry -- 5. Breton's Surrealism, or How to Sublimate Cinepoetry -- 6. Doing Filmic Things with Words: On Chaplin -- PART THREE: Cinepoetry and Postwar Trauma Cultures -- 7. The Poem-Scenario in the Interwar (1917-1928) -- 8. Reembodied Writing: Lettrism and Kinesthetic Scripts (1946-1959) -- PART FOUR: Cinema's Print Culture in Poetry -- 9. Postlyricism and the Movie Program: From Jarry to Alferi -- 10. Cine-Verse: Decoupage Poetics and Filmic Implicature -- PART FIVE: Skin, Screen, Page: Cinepoetry's Historical Imaginary -- 11. Max Jeanne's Western: Eschatological Sarcasm in the Postcolony -- 12. Maurice Roche's Compact: Word-Tracks and the Body Apparatus -- 13. Nelly Kaplan's Le Collier de ptyx: Mallarmé as Political McGuffin -- Conclusion: The Film to Come in Contemporary Poetry -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Color plates.
The book examines how 19th- and 20th-century French-speaking poets have used cinema for cross-medium writing experiments, especially in the aftermath of the two world wars, thereby altering modernist literary imagination.
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French poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism. French poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Motion pictures and literature -- France. Motion pictures in literature.