Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture
Literature in Motion
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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, literature's exemplar and rival in narrative realism and enthrallment? Gleeson-White draws on extensive archival film and literary materials, and unearths a range of collaborative, cross-media expressive and industrial practices to reveal the manifold ways in which early-twentieth-century literary culture sought both to harness and temper the reach of motion pictures.
About the Author:
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.
Press Reviews:
"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
> From the same author:
William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox (2017)
The Annotated Screenplays
Dir. Sarah Gleeson-White
Subject: One Film > The road to glory, Banjo on my knee, Slave Ship, Submarine Patrol, Drums along the Mohawk, The left hand of God
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American Cinema of the 1910s (2009)
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Discovering Marginalized Voices
by Gregg Paul Bachman and Thomas J. Slater
Subject: Silent Cinema
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