Introduction : Cinema as Imaginary Medium in French Poetry -- Mallarmé Unfolds the Cinématographe -- The Pen-Camera : Raymond Roussel's freeze-frame panorama -- Le Film surnaturel : Cocteau's immersive writing -- Jean Epstein's Invention of Cinepoetry -- Breton's Surrealism, or How to Sublimate Cinepoetry -- Doing Filmic Things with Words : On Chaplin -- The Poem-Scenario in the Interwar (1917-1928) -- Reembodied Writing : lettrism and kinesthetic scripts (1946-1959) -- Postlyricism and the Movie Program : from Jarry to Alferi -- Cine-Verse : decoupage poetics and filmic implicature -- Max Jeanne's Western : eschatological sarcasm in the postcolony -- Maurice Roche's Compact : word-tracks and the body apparatus -- Nelly Kaplan's Le Collier de ptyx : Mallarmé as political McGuffin -- Conclusion : the film to come in contemporary poetry
Summary
In this book, the author suggests a broad rethinking of the relationship between film and literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-466) and index
