Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture
Literature in Motion
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2024
Summary
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining moment in U.S. literary history. Author Sarah Gleeson-White discovers what happened to literary culture—both popular and higher-brow—when inserted into the spectacular world of motion pictures during the early decades of the twentieth century. How did literary culture respond to, and how was it altered by, the development of motion pictures, literat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197558065 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197558062 |
| Author: | Sarah Gleeson-White |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 239mm x 157mm x 20mm |
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Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture elegantly maps the ways silent cinema reshaped American literary culture. If you’re wondering where the study of film and literature should go, Sarah Gleeson-White shows the way. * Jordan Brower, Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky *
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture is striking for its ambitions and its generosity. In it, Sarah Gleeson-White defines a pervasive and significant phenomenon that has been heretofore ignored: her term ‘motion-picture print culture’ so perfectly defines the proliferation of film-engaged texts and texts on film that it will surely become part of the lexicon for describing the period’s cultural exchanges. Beginning by identifying film’s effects on authorship and ending with an analysis of how readers, too, were changed by ‘motion-picture print culture,’ this book is a model for reading new cultural forms, from the author cameo to the storyization. * Katherine Fusco, Associate Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno *
Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion offers an exciting model of rigorous archival labour to recuperate undervalued cultural objects. Gleeson-White’s work should inspire cultural historians across disciplines to bold new interpretive endeavours in the archives. * Eden Rea-Hedrick, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *
About The Author
Sarah Gleeson-White
Sarah Gleeson-White is Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on early twentieth-century U.S. literature and film in PMLA, Modernism/modernity, African American Review and elsewhere. Her books include William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays, Strange Bodies: Gender and Identity in the Novels of Carson McCullers, and, as co-editor, The New William Faulkner Studies.
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