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The nickel was for the movies : film in the novel from Pirandello to Puig /

The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting probably wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet with the invention of film, human perception was engaged in a more all-encompassing way than it ever had been by a single art fo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Moses, Gavriel
Format: eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Pt. 1. Pirandello: Man makes movies make man ; Icons unreal irony
  • pt. 2. Nabokov: Memory unreals ; Albinus fake movies
  • pt. 3. Film theory and literary genre: Film theory as narrative ; The film novel as literary genre
  • pt. 4. The film novel: The Hollywood novel: Isherwood, "Infernal machine" ; Fitzgerald, "Dream made flesh" ; West, "The barber in Purdue" ; The eyes have to know: Moravia, "Ghost in the cave" ; Percy, "Monkey see, monkey do" ; You can't imagine: Puig, "Dark inside the movie house" ; Puig, "Lots of lovely, lovely films"
  • pt. 5. Conclusion: The return of genre.