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The Tenth Muse - Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (Paperback)
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The Tenth Muse - Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (Paperback)
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The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades
of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of
cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly,
aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the
study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with
literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new
understanding of the ways in which early writers about film -
reviewers, critics, theorists - developed aesthetic categories to
define and accommodate what was called 'the seventh art' or 'the
tenth muse' and found discursive strategies adequate to the
representation of the new art and technology of cinema, with its
unprecedented powers of movement.
In examining the writings of early film critics and commentators in
tandem with those of more specifically literary figures, including
H.G.Wells and Virginia Woolf, and in bringing literary texts into
this field, Laura Marcus provides a new account of relationships
between cinema and literature. Intertwining two major strands of
research - the exploration of early film criticism and theory and
cinema's presence in literary texts - The Tenth Muse shows how
issues central to an understanding of cinema (including questions
of time, repetition, movement, vision, sound and silence) are
threaded through both kinds of writing, and the ways in which
discursive and fictional writings overlapped.
The movement that defined cinema was also perceived as a more
fragile and unstable ephemerality that inhered at every level, from
the fleeting nature of the projected images to the vagaries of
cinematic exhibition. It was the anxiety over the mutability of the
medium and its exhibition which, from the 1920s onwards, led to the
establishment of such institutional spaces for cinema as the
London-based Film Society, the new film journals, and, in the
1930s, the first film archives. The Tenth Muse explores the
continuities between these sites of cinematic culture and the
conceptual, literary and philosophical understandings of the filmic
medium.
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