Cinema and Modernism

Cinema and Modernism
Author :
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 218
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1405159820
ISBN-13 : 9781405159821
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema and Modernism by : David Trotter

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. Offers major re-interpretations of key Modernist works, including Ulysses, The Waste Land, and To the Lighthouse Explores film and film-going in works by Henry James, Frank Norris, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen Offers original analyses of crucial phases in the careers of two of the most celebrated film-makers of the silent era, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin

A Modernist Cinema

A Modernist Cinema
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 337
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780199379453
ISBN-13 : 0199379459
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis A Modernist Cinema by : Scott W. Klein

"In A Modernist Cinema, edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors-Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buänuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles-these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography. Contributors: Richard Begam, Maurizia Bascagli, Enda Duffy, Laura Frost, Andrzej Gasiorek, Scott W. Klein, Douglas Mao, Laura Marcus, Jesse Matz, Tyrus Miller, Michael Valdez Moses, Michael North, Elizabeth Otto, Carrie J. Preston, Lisa Siraganian, Michael Wood"--

Screening Modernism

Screening Modernism
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 441
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226451664
ISBN-13 : 0226451666
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Screening Modernism by : András Bálint Kovács

Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs like Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, Screening Modernism is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema’s postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, András Bálint Kovács’s encyclopedic work argues that cinematic modernism was not a unified movement with a handful of styles and themes but rather a stunning range of variations on the core principles of modern art. Illustrating how the concepts of modernism and the avant-garde variously manifest themselves in film, Kovács begins by tracing the emergence of art cinema as a historical category. He then explains the main formal characteristics of modern styles and forms as well as their intellectual foundation. Finally, drawing on modernist theory and philosophy along the way, he provides an innovative history of the evolution of modern European art cinema. Exploring not only modernism’s origins but also its stylistic, thematic, and cultural avatars, Screening Modernism ultimately lays out creative new ways to think about the historical periods that comprise this golden age of film.

The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 270
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781136455155
ISBN-13 : 1136455159
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism by : Andrew Shail

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.

Cinema and Modernity

Cinema and Modernity
Author :
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 386
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780813538167
ISBN-13 : 0813538165
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinema and Modernity by : Murray Pomerance

Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. This volume shows us the significant ways that film has both grown in the context of the modern world and played a central role in reflecting and shaping our interactions with it.

Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema

Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema
Author :
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 707
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780253347718
ISBN-13 : 0253347718
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Masterpieces of Modernist Cinema by : Ted Perry

Noted film scholars analyze some of the most challenging films of the 20th century

Film and Literary Modernism

Film and Literary Modernism
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 255
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781443866446
ISBN-13 : 144386644X
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Film and Literary Modernism by : Robert P. McParland

In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. S. Eliot, time and stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf and Henri Bergson, the racial undercurrents in the film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, and examine the film writing of William Faulkner, James Agee, and Graham Greene. Robert McParland assembles an international group of researchers including independent film makers, critics and professors of film, creative writers, teachers of architecture and design, and young doctoral scholars, who offer a multi-faceted look at modernism and the art of the film.

Arab Modernism as World Cinema

Arab Modernism as World Cinema
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 301
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520974333
ISBN-13 : 0520974336
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Arab Modernism as World Cinema by : Peter Limbrick

Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies—Peter Limbrick argues that Smihi’s films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi’s oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.

Cinematic Modernism

Cinematic Modernism
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 302
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521846218
ISBN-13 : 9780521846219
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Cinematic Modernism by : Susan McCabe

Publisher Description

Post-war Cinema and Modernity

Post-war Cinema and Modernity
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 468
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0814762026
ISBN-13 : 9780814762028
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Post-war Cinema and Modernity by : John Orr

Both professors at the U. of Edinburgh (Scotland), Orr (sociology) and Taxidou (English) have collected a diverse selection of previously published material on film, much of it controversial and challenging, to produce a reader for the undergraduate classroom. The readings are divided into theory and form, form and process, and international cinema. The selected authors (who include such thinkers and directors as Andre Bazin, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, Paul Virilio, Duncan Petrie, Susan Sontag, and Laura Mulvey) mull questions of film and modernity, film and poetry, film and postmodernity, cinematic perception, changing film technology, and the social and national context of international films. c. Book News Inc.