TY  - GEN
T1  - Literature, cinema and politics, 1930-1945 : reading between the frames
A1  - Feigel, Lara
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2010
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn657320743
AB  - This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature. Dismayed by the rise of fascism in Europe and by the widening gulf separating the classes at home, these writers turned to cinema as a popular and hard-hitting art form. Lara Feigel crosses boundaries between high modernism and social realism and between 'high' and 'popular' culture, bringing together Virginia Woolf with W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen with John Sommerfield, Sergei Eisenstein with Gracie Fields. The book ends in the Second World War, an era when the bombs and searchlights rendered everyday life cinematic. Feigel interrogates the genres she maps, drawing on cultural theories from the 1920s onwards to investigate the nature of the cinematic and the literary. While it was not possible directly to transfer the techniques of the screen to the page any more than it was possible to 'go over' to the working classes, the attempts nonetheless reveal a fascinating intersection of the visual and the verbal, the political and the aesthetic. In reading between the frames of an unexplored literary tradition, this book redefines 1930s and wartime literature and politics. Key Features  Offers new interpretations of well-known texts and writers such as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen, Christopher Isherwood, Louis MacNeice, George Orwell and Virginia Woolf Offers substantial readings of less well-known writers including working-class writers John Sommerfield and James Barke Offers a new perspective on Spanish Civil War and Second World War writing
OP  - 292
CN  - PN1995.3 .F45 2010eb
SN  - 9780748642656
SN  - 074864265X
SN  - 1282749897
SN  - 9781282749894
SN  - 661274989X
SN  - 9786612749896
SN  - 9780748639502
SN  - 0748639500
KW  - Woolf, Virginia : 1882-1941
KW  - Bibel : Philemonbrief
KW  - Motion pictures and literature : History : 20th century.
KW  - Motion pictures : Political aspects.
KW  - Politics and literature : History : 20th century.
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Motion pictures : History : 20th century.
KW  - Cinéma et littérature : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Politique et littérature : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Modernisme (Littérature)
KW  - Cinéma : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Cinéma : Aspect politique.
KW  - ART : Film & Video.
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Sociology : General.
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures and literature
KW  - Motion pictures : Political aspects
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Dokumentarfilm
KW  - Film : Motiv
KW  - Politischer Film
KW  - Film.
KW  - Tonfilm.
KW  - Filmästhetik.
KW  - Literatur.
KW  - Politik.
KW  - Verfilmung.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -