Michael North

Camera Works

Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word

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Produktbeschreibung

Draws connections bewteen the avant-garde and popular works of film and photography, positioning photography as an alternate to writing.

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Camera Works is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazine and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern by responding to these new means of representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780195332933
• ISBN-10: 0195332938
• Artikelnr.: 23276090

Autorenporträt

Michael North is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include The Waste Land: A Norton Critical Edition (ed.), Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, and The Dialect of ModernismL Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mechanical Recording and the Modern Arts
Part One: The Logocinema of the Little Magazines
Chapter 1 Camera Work: The Hieroglyphics of the New Photography
Chapter 2 transition: The Movies, the Readies, and the Revolution of the Word
Chapter 3 Close Up: International Modernisms Struggle with Sound
Part Two: Spectatorship, Media Relations, and Modern American Fiction
Chapter 4 F. Scott Fitzgeralds Spectroscopic Fiction
Chapter 5 An Eyeminded People: Spectatorship in Dos Passos U.S.A.
Chapter 6 Du Bois, Johnson, and the Recordings of Race
Chapter 7 Ernest Hemingways Media Relations
Conclusion