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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405159820
• ISBN13: 9781405159821
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"