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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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2010.
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.