Edith Wharton on Film /

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Edith Wharton (1862- 1937), who lived nearly half of her life during the cinema age when she published many of her well-known works, acknowledged that she disliked the movies, characterizing them as an enemy of the imagination. Yet her fiction often referenced film and popular Hollywood culture, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boswell, Parley Ann
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Knowledge > Art.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Film adaptations.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Visual perception in literature.
Art.
American fiction.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Perception visuelle dans la litterature.
American fiction > Film adaptations.
Film adaptations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A glittering place
  • Charm incorporated : the short fiction
  • The mechanical terror : the novels
  • Going Hollywood : the thirties
  • Wharton in bloom : the nineties
  • Conclusion: Another country.

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