Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel

by Pardis Dabashi

An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction.

The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the "tyranny" of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226829243
• ISBN13: 9780226829241
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"