Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity

by Katherine Fusco

Book Overview

Typically, studies of early cinema's relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for the American public's attention. In this media ecosystem, the cinema appeared alongside the works of authors including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, and Frank Norris. Drawing on contemporaneous theories of time and modernity as well as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367876396
• ISBN13: 9780367876395
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"