1st Edition
Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature Time, Narrative, and Modernity
By Katherine Fusco
Copyright 2016
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Typically, studies of early cinema’s relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for the American public’s attention. In this media ecosystem, the cinema appeared alongside the works of authors including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, and Frank Norris. Drawing on... Read more
Introduction: Progress Without People 1. Unnatural Time: Frank Norris at the Cinema’s Beginnings 2. Naturalist Historiography at the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norris, D.W. Griffith, and Naturalist Editing 3. Made of Leavings and Scraps: Jack London, Jack Johnson, and Racial Time 4. Systems, Not Men: Processes without People in Utopian Factory Films and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eusocial Feminism. Epilogue: Scaling up to Modernism.
Biography
Katherine Fusco is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, US.
