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A Modernist Cinema: Film Art from 1914 to 1941

Editat de Scott W. Klein, Michael Valdez Moses
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 feb 2022
In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors - Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buñuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles - these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art of filmmaking; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199379460
ISBN-10: 0199379467
Pagini: 334
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

The volume does not descend into a vague "modernists go to the movies" survey. Rather, despite the canonicity of the films, each essay provides strong case studies. Though all the essays have a similar implicit thesis--something like "this film, which does not seem to be modernist, actually speaks to modernism"--the variety of topics covered is the book's strong suit.
The table of contents of this book reads like a veritable Who's Who of cinematic modernism, including such directors as Griffith, Eisenstein, Lang, Hitchcock, Murnau, Dreyer, Bunuel, Ford, Renoir, Chaplin, Riefenstahl, and Welles. Add to that the fact that every chapter offers a provocative and original take on a single masterpiece by each of these directors, and you have a truly remarkable volume. And to top it all off, the essays are written in accessible, jargon-free prose and explore their subjects with a deep awareness of historical and theoretical contexts.

Notă biografică

Scott W. Klein is Professor of English and Artistic Director of the Secrest Artists Series at Wake Forest University, North Carolina. He is the author of The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design the editor of the Oxford World's Classics edition of the 1928 edition of Wyndham Lewis's Tarr, and with Mark Antliff the editor of the essay collection Vorticism: New Perspectives. He has published essays in such journals as ELH, Modernist Cultures, Twentieth Century Literature, and The James Joyce Quarterly, and is on the editorial boards of the Oxford Complete Writings of Wyndham Lewis edition and of the The Journal of Wyndham Lewis.Michael Valdez Moses is Professor of Literature and the Humanities in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and in the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University, and Associate Emeritus Professor at Duke University, where he was a faculty member of the English Department from 1987 to 2019. He is the author of The Novel and the Globalization of Culture (1995), co-editor of Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1900-1939 (2010) and Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present (2019), and editor of The Writings of J. M. Coetzee (special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 1994) and Modernism and Cinema (special issue of Modernist Cultures, 2010).He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University, a Duke Endowment Fellow at the National Humanities Center, USIA Visiting Professor at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and at Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech, and the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colorado College. He is former Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department of Duke University and a founding co-editor of the journal, Modernist Cultures.