Cinema and Modernism

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5982-1

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218 pages

March 2007, Wiley-Blackwell

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A fully interdisciplinary study of the relations between early cinema and literary Modernism
Rewrites the cultural history of the early twentieth century, showing how film technology and modernist aesthetics combined to explore the limits of the human
Includes new information on the nature and extent of the interest in cinema taken by writers such as Joyce, Eliot, and Woolf
Offers major re-interpretations of key Modernist works, including Ulysses, The Waste Land, and To the Lighthouse
Explores film and film-going in works by Henry James, Frank Norris, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen
Offers original analyses of crucial phases in the careers of two of the most celebrated film-makers of the silent era, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin