Katherine Fusco

Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Time, Narrative, and Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book goes beyond traditional adaptation studies approaches to show how naturalism and early cinema intervened in the era's experiments with temporality and time management. It shows how US naturalist novels are constructed around a formal and thematic interrogation of the relationship between human freedom and temporal inexorability and that the early film developed in the context of naturalist experiments with time. Fusco identifies the silent cinema and naturalist novel's privileging of narrative progress over character development as a symbolic solution to social and aesthetic concerns from systems of representation, to historiography, labor reform, miscegenation, and birth control.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317293194
• Artikelnr.: 44866330

Autorenporträt

Katherine Fusco is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Progress Without People 1. Unnatural Time: Frank Norris at the Cinema's Beginnings 2. Naturalist Historiography at the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norris
D.W. Griffith
and Naturalist Editing 3. Made of Leavings and Scraps: Jack London
Jack Johnson
and Racial Time 4. Systems
Not Men: Processes without People in Utopian Factory Films and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eusocial Feminism. Epilogue: Scaling up to Modernism.