268 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
29 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early British film culture in literature, thus providing the first account of cinema as a cause for... Read more
Introduction: From ‘The Cinematograph’ To ‘The Pictures’ 1: The Cinema of Narrative Integration, The End of Impressionism, and the Rise of Modernism 2: Cinema’s Continuous Present and Modernist Temporality 3: Mass Consciousness and Mass Cinema 4: The Picture Personality and The Modernist Turn to Epic Afterword: "A Picture Feverishly Turned"
Biography
Andrew Shail is Lecturer in Film in the Department of English at Newcastle University, UK.
"It is difficult to do justice to the richness of each of these chapters. Each one contains fine discriminations and subtle distinctions." - Terry Caesar, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
