Off to the Pictures: Cinemagoing, Women's Writing and Movie Culture in Interwar Britain

ISBN-13: 9781474431910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Lisa Stead

Opis

Using detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema's place in the fictions and critical writings of major female literary figures.

Spis treści

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Off to the Pictures: Cinema, Fiction and Interwar Culture
Chapter 2: Screen Fantasies: Tie-ins and the Short Story
Chapter 3: Middlebrow Modernity: Class, Cinemagoing and Selfhood
Chapter 4: Wander, Watch, Repeat: Jean Rhys and Cinema
Chapter 5: Film Talk: C. A. Lejeune and the Female Film Critic
Chapter 6: Elinor Glyn: Intermedial Romance and Authorial Stardom
Afterword
Bibliography
Index