Cinema and ModernismISBN: 978-1-4051-5982-1
Paperback
218 pages
March 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary
modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent
scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central
cinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and how
modernist were the concerns of Chaplin and Griffith. This book
rewrites the cultural history of the early twentieth century,
showing how film technology and modernist aesthetics combined to
explore the limits of the human.
- 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