Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film - Softcover

McCabe, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521114837 ISBN 13: 9780521114837

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Susan McCabe juxtaposes the work of four American modernist poets with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. The historical experience of World War One and its aftermath of broken and shocked bodies shaped a preoccupation with fragmentation in both film and literature. Film, montage and camera work provided poets with a vocabulary through which to explore and refashion modern physical and metaphoric categories of the body, including the hysteric, automaton, bisexual and femme fatale. This innovative study explores the impact of new cinematic modes of representation on the poetry of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Cinematic Modernism links the study of literary forms with film studies, visual culture, gender studies and psychoanalysis to expand the usual parameters of literary modernism.

About this title

Book Description:

Susan McCabe juxtaposes modernist poetry with the techniques and themes of early twentieth-century European avant-garde films. Cinematic Modernism explores the impact of new cinematic modes of representation on Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Marianne Moore, and uses insights from literary criticism, film studies, gender studies and psychoanalysis.

About the Author:

Susan McCabe is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521114837
• ISBN 13: 9780521114837
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296