Literature, cinema and politics, 1930-1945 : reading between the frames /

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 writ...

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Egile nagusia: Feigel, Lara
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Argitaratua: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
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Aurkibidea:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures
  • Introduction
  • 1. Radical cinema
  • 2. Mass observing: the 1930s documentary gaze
  • 3. The documentary movement and mass leisure, 1930-1945
  • 4. Camera consciousness
  • 5. Framing history: Virginia Woolf and the politicisation of aesthetics
  • 6. 'The savage and austere light of a burning world': the cinematic blitz
  • Afterword
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.