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Dickens and the dream of cinema
- 作者: Smith, Grahame,
- 出版: Manchester ;New York :New York : Manchester University Press ;Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave 2003.
- 稽核項: x, 206 pages :illustrations ;23 cm.
- 標題: Technique. , Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Film adaptations. , Film adaptations History and criticism. , Film adaptations , Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Technique. , History and criticism. , Performing arts in literature. , Literature and technology Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. , Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Knowledge and learning. , Literature and technology , Dickens, Charles, , Motion pictures and literature. , Film adaptations. , Knowledge and learning. , History
- ISBN: 0719055636 , 9780719055638
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index. Exploratory -- Machines and things: seeing and being seen -- Explanations -- London as labyrinth -- Paris as panorama -- The magic carpet of technology -- Dickens, theatre and spectacle -- The impurity of art -- Novel into film: the case of Little Dorrit -- Language and form.
- 摘要: This text seeks to dissolve the barriers between literary and film studies. Grahame Smith - a major Dickens scholar who has also taught, researched and published in the field of film - seeks to establish a role for Dickens in the emergence of cinema. , Dickens and the dream of cinema seeks to dissolve the barriers between literary and film studies. Grahame Smith, a major Dickens scholar who has also taught, researched and published in the field of film, suggests that Dickens's work plays a seminal role in the emergence of cinema. Taking his cue from Walter Benjamin's concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow, Smith argues that Dickens's novels can be regarded as proto-filmic in the detail of their language as well as their larger formal structures. This possibility arises from Dickens's creative engagement with the city as metropolis, as it emerges in the London of the 1830s. Dickens's immersion in the visual entertainments of his own day, such as the panorama, and his interest in railway travel are also important ingredients in this anticipation of film. The book suggests a new way of reading Dickens by way of a form which only came into existence after his death, while simultaneously offering an account of his part in the manifold forces that led to the appearance of film towards the end of the nineteenth century. This original and groundbreaking study will appeal both to the many readers of Dickens and to students of early and silent cinema.
- 系統號: 005333666
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Taking his cue from Walter Benjamin's concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow, Grahame Smith argues that Dickens' novels can be regarded as proto-filmic in the detail of their language as well as their larger formal structures. This possibility arises from Dickens' creative engagement with the city as metropolis, as it emerges in the London of the 1830s, plus his immersion in the visual entertainments of his day, such as the panorama, as well as technological advances such as the railway which anticipates cinema in some of its major features. The book offers a new way of reading Dickens, through the perspective of a form which he knew nothing of, while simultaneously suggesting an account of his part in the manifold forces that led to the appearance of film towards the end of the 19th century.
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