The Visual Culture of Modernism offers a wide-ranging exploration of intertextual relations that bring together artists, artistic forms and artistic periods in response to the question: what is the relevance of early twentieth-century American...
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The Visual Culture of Modernism offers a wide-ranging exploration of intertextual relations that bring together artists, artistic forms and artistic periods in response to the question: what is the relevance of early twentieth-century American Modernism to our present historical moment? Scholars from Europe and America develop responses to this question based on the philosophical heritage of modernity and in the context of the range of Modernist cultural praxis. The essays collected here explore links between literary and cultural Modernism, the relationship between the concepts of modernity and Modernism, and the legacy of Modernism in the late twentieth century and the contemporary period. Cinema, cinematic paratexts, television, the visual arts of painting and photography, poetry, fiction, and drama are among the artistic forms discussed in terms of issues ranging from cinematic and stage reinterpretations of Modernist literary texts to the genre of televisual melodrama and the trope of racial passing. The essays argue that visuality remains an urgent concern, from the Modernist period to our present age of media revolution.
Swiss papers in English language and literature : SPELL ; Volume 26
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Table of Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Modernity: The Troubled Trope; The Efficiency of Images: Educational Effectivenessand the Modernity of Motion Pictures; Body Rebuilding: Tracing the Body at theDawn of the Cybernetic Age; Hitler goes Pop: Totalitarianism, Avant-gardeAesthetics and Hollywood Entertainment; Promotion vs. Suppression: Intermedial Relationshipsbetween Early Narrative Film and itsFan Magazine Fictionizations; I Am a Camera: The Development of ChristopherIsherwood's Goodbye to Berlin acrossStage, Screen and Time
The Poetics of the Avant-Garde: ModernistPoetry and Visual ArtsPresenting the Real: Hopperesque Updike in"In Football Season" (1962); The Cinema and Modernist Innovation: SerialRepresentation and Cinematic ImmediacyEffects in Gertrude Stein's Early Portraits; Picturing the Depression: Ambivalent Politics ofRepresentation in FSA Photography; Haptic Close-ups and Montage: SurrealistDesire in Erich von Stroheim's Greed andLuis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou; Time- and Space-Montagein Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours; Pathetic Copycats: Female Victimhood andVisuality in Melodramatic Films
Making the "Monstrous" Visible? Reading"Difference" in Contemporary FantasticFilm and TelevisionNotes on Contributors; Index of Names
