Artificial generation : photogenic French literature and the prehistory of cinematic modernity /

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"Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity looks at nineteenth-century literary representation and film theory, arguing that the depth of amalgamation that occurred within literary representation during this era is a key aesthetic tradition th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Parker-Flynn, Christina (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1800-1899
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures and literature.
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Representation (Philosophy)
Modernism (Art)
Littérature française > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma et littérature.
Représentation (Philosophie)
Modernisme (Art)
Cinéma > Philosophie.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
French literature
Motion pictures and literature
Motion pictures > Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: modernity's reori-gene-ation
  • Part 1. The literary afterlife: Theophile Gautier's aesthetic resurrection
  • Book of Genesis: the Villi-fication of woman in L'Ève future
  • Salomania: the unnatural oder of (beautiful) things in Oscar Wilde's Salome
  • Part 2. Statuesque cinema: adapting literature, animating film
  • See-through woman: reproductive delusions in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
  • Epilogue: still mother: adapting to life in Blade Runner: 2049.

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