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Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature - Time, Narrative, and Modernity (Paperback)
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Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature - Time, Narrative, and Modernity (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
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Typically, studies of early cinema's relation to literature have
focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film
first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing
for the American public's attention. In this media ecosystem, the
cinema appeared alongside the works of authors including Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, Jack London, and Frank Norris. Drawing on
contemporaneous theories of time and modernity as well as recent
scholarship on film, narrative, and naturalism, this book moves
beyond traditional adaptation studies approaches to argue that both
naturalism and the early cinema intervened in the era's varying
experiments with temporality and time management. Specifically, it
shows that American naturalist novels are constructed around a
sustained formal and thematic interrogation of the relationship
between human freedom and temporal inexorability and that the early
cinema developed its norms in the context of naturalist experiments
with time. The book identifies the silent cinema and naturalist
novel's shared privileging of narrative progress over character
development as a symbolic solution to social and aesthetic concerns
ranging from systems of representation, to historiography, labor
reform, miscegenation, and birth control. This volume thus
establishes the dynamic exchange between silent film and
naturalism, arguing that in the products of this exchange,
personality figures as excess bogging down otherwise efficient
narratives of progress. Considering naturalist authors and a
diverse range of early film genres, this is the first book-length
study of the reciprocal media exchanges that took place when the
cinema was new. It will be a valuable resource to those with
interests in Adaptation Studies, American Literature, Film History,
Literary Naturalism, Modernism, and Narrative Theory.
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