Description |
1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction : mechanical recording and the modern arts -- pt. I. The logocinema of the little magazines -- 1. Camera work : the hieroglyphics of the new photography -- 2. Transition : the movies, the readies, and the revolution of the word -- 3. Close up : international modernism's struggle with sound -- pt. II. Spectatorship, media relations, and modern American fiction -- 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald's spectroscopic fiction -- 5. An eyeminded people : spectatorship in Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- 6. Du Bois, Johnson, and the recordings of race -- 7. Ernest Hemingway's media relations |
Summary |
'Camera Works' is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazines and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern by responding to these new means of representation |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Photography -- Social aspects -- 20th century
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Photography -- Influence -- 20th century
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Literature and photography -- 20th century
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Literature and photography
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Photography -- Influence
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Photography -- Social aspects
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Oxford University Press
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ISBN |
9780199787906 |
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0199787905 |
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