Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture

Literature in Motion

AvSarah Gleeson-White

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining moment in U.S. literary history. Author Sarah Gleeson-White discovers what happened to literary culture-both popular and higher-brow—when inserted into the spectacular world of motion pictures during the early decades of the twentieth century. How did literary culture respond to, and how was it altered by, the development of motion pictures, literature's exemplar and rival in narrative realism and enthrallment? Gleeson-White draws on extensive archival film and literary materials, and unearths a range of collaborative, cross-media expressive and industrial practices to reveal the manifold ways in which early-twentieth-century literary culture sought both to harness and temper the reach of motion pictures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-29
Mått:157 x 239 x 20 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197558065

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Sarah Gleeson-White is Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on early twentieth-century U.S. literature and film in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, African American Review and elsewhere. Her books include William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays, Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers, and, as co-editor, The New William Faulkner Studies.

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Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture elegantly maps the ways silent cinema reshaped American literary culture. If you're wondering where the study of film and literature should go, Sarah Gleeson-White shows the way.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Literature in Motion Chapter 1. Starring the Author: Literary Celebrity and Popular Authorship Chapter 2. Black Authorship at the Movies: Oscar Micheaux, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Wallace Thurman Chapter 3. Novel Forms: Rose Atwood's "A Man's Duty," Oscar Micheaux's The Masquerade: An Historical Novel, Willa Cather's A Lost Lady Chapter 4. Readerly Pleasures: Screen Reading, and The Motion Picture Story Magazine Afterword. Roaming with Vachel Lindsay and Oscar Micheaux Works Cited Notes