| Cinema and Modernism Contributor(s): Trotter, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1405159820 ISBN-13: 9781405159821 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $35.63 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2007 Annotation: " " 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.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2006034249 |
| Series: Critical Quarterly Book |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 6.14" W x 9.05" (0.71 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.
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