Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780367876395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Katherine Fusco

Opis

This book goes beyond traditional adaptation studies approaches to show how naturalism and early cinema intervened in the era’s experiments with temporality and time management. It shows how US naturalist novels are constructed around a formal and thematic interrogation of the relationship between human freedom and temporal inexorability and tha

Spis treści

Introduction: Progress Without People 1. Unnatural Time: Frank Norris at the Cinema’s Beginnings 2. Naturalist Historiography at the Moving Picture Show: Frank Norris, D.W. Griffith, and Naturalist Editing 3. Made of Leavings and Scraps: Jack London, Jack Johnson, and Racial Time 4. Systems, Not Men: Processes without People in Utopian Factory Films and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Eusocial Feminism. Epilogue: Scaling up to Modernism.

O autorze

Katherine Fusco is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, US.