Christina Parker-Flynn

Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity looks at nineteenth-century literary representation and film theory, arguing that the depth of amalgamation that occurred within literary representation during this era is a key aesthetic tradition that continues to inform movies and contemporary culture today.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978825079
• ISBN-10: 1978825072
• Artikelnr.: 62622310

Autorenporträt

CHRISTINA PARKER-FLYNN is an assistant professor of film and literature in the Department of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction: Modernity’s Reori-gene-ation
Part I Literary Simulations
1 The Literary Afterlife: Théophile Gautier’s Aesthetic of Resurrection
2 Book of Genesis: The Villi-fication of Woman in L’Ève future
3 Salomania: The Unnatural Order of (Beautiful) Things in Oscar Wilde’s
Salomé
Part II Cinematic Replications
4 Statuesque Cinema: Adapting Literature, Animating Film
5 See-Through Woman: Reproductive Delusions in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
Epilogue: Still Mother—Adapting to Life in Blade Runner 2049
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index