The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period

by Laura Marcus

Book Overview

The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of
early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers about film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199590303
• ISBN13: 9780199590308
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 584 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"