This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed by the rise of fascism in Europe and by the...
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This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed by the rise of fascism in Europe and by the widening gulf separating the classes at home, these writers turned to cinema as a popular and hard-hitting art form. Lara Feigel crosses boundaries between high modernism and social realism and between 'high' and 'popular' culture, bringing together Virginia Woolf with W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen with John Sommerfield, Sergei Eisenstein with Gracie Field Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- Introduction -- 1. Radical cinema -- 2. Mass observing: the 1930s documentary gaze -- 3. The documentary movement and mass leisure, 1930-1945 -- 4. Camera consciousness -- 5. Framing history: Virginia Woolf and the politicisation of aesthetics -- 6. 'The savage and austere light of a burning world': the cinematic blitz -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index
