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Author North, Michael

Title Camera works : photography and the twentieth-century word / Michael North
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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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
Photography -- Influence -- 20th century
Literature and photography -- 20th century
Literature and photography
Photography -- Influence
Photography -- Social aspects
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199787906
0199787905