Still Modernism - Photography, Literature, Film

Casting new light on the relationship between photography and film, Still Modernism articulates the struggle between the still and the kinetic at the center of modernist culture.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction




• Chapter 1: Resisting Arrest: Imagining Motion in Film and Photography


• Chapter 2: Stilling the Subject: From Composite to Close-Up


• Chapter 3: The Instant and the Series: The Pace of Stillness in Muybridge, Joyce, and Chaplin


• Chapter 4: Still There: Virginia Woolf's Theory of Photography


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Louise Hornby is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

Casting new light on the relationship between photography and film, Still Modernism articulates the struggle between the still and the kinetic at the center of modernist culture.

Additional text

Still Modernism is an important book for those who wish to continue to reflect on the world of light, words, and stills that continues to surround us.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Hornby, Louise (Associate Professor of English Hornby
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2022
• EAN: 9780197626047
• ISBN: 978-0-19-762604-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Photography & photographs, ART / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Artists' Books, Film Theory & Criticism, Photography and photographs, Film history, theory or criticism