![]() Robert McParland assembles an international group of researchers including independent film makers, critics and professors of film, creative writers, teachers of architecture and design, and young doctoral scholars, who offer a multi-faceted look at modernism and the art of the film. Eliot, time and stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf and Henri Bergson, the racial undercurrents in the film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction, and examine the film writing of William Faulkner, James Agee, and Graham Greene. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. McParland Date Of Publication: Mar 2013 Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4450-5 Isbn: 1-4438-4450-0 In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The antidote offered by these films, in the form of cinematic time as an experiential time that affects viewers through their bodies, is relevant today more than ever.įilm and Literary Modernism Editor: Robert P. Watching these films today highlights the extent to which the processes of unification and standardisation have only intensified since, causing a rift between time and the human body. Through the analysis of the historical reception of the films, I argue that they were perceived as offering an alternative to the precise and impersonal measure of the clock by using cinematic time as an experiential duration, set by the depicted action and the attempt to affect viewer’s emotions through their bodily sensations. film of the 1920s, Disney Studio films and computer animation. This study is grounded in the historical context of the modernisation of time, demonstrating how these films reflected and coped with the rise of an abstract and standardised conception of temporality. On y traite galement de la structure de lindustrie du cinma au Qubec et du rle jou. The 1920s saw the worldwide creation of the ‘City Symphony Films,’ avant-garde montages of the daily lives of cities.
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