Beschreibung:
This book examines early British film and film culture as a substantial context for the emergence of modernism in literature. The study considers Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, and Eliot, and treats literary modernism as a consequence of cinema's new accounts of language, time, collectivity, and the self.
Selected Contents: Introduction: From 'the Cinematograph' to 'the Pictures' 1. The Cinema of Narrative Integration, the Demise of Impressionism and the Rise of Modernism 2. Cinema's Continuous Present and Modernist Temporality 3. Mass Consciousness and Mass Cinema 4. Afterword: 'a picture feverishly turned'