The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism Contributor(s): Shail, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138794171 ISBN-13: 9781138794177 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 820.911 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 268 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 modernism. Shail's study draws on little-known sources to create a detailed picture of cinema following its 'second birth' as both institution and medium. The book presents a comprehensive account of how UK-based modernism originated as a consequence of--rather than a conscious aesthetic response to--this new component of the cultural landscape. Film's new accounts of language, endeavor, time, collectivity and political change are first considered, then related to the patterns that comprised modernist texts. Authors discussed include Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, H.D., James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson. |