H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies

by Keith Williams and Keith Williams

Book Overview

This book investigates Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. It plugs a gap in understanding Wells's contribution to exploring and advancing the possibilities of cinematic narrative and its social and ideological impacts in the modern period. Previous studies concentrate on adaptations: this book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846310601
• ISBN13: 9781846310607
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"