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The American Poet at the Movies - A Critical History (Paperback, New edition)
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The American Poet at the Movies - A Critical History (Paperback, New edition)
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The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History presents a
series of case studies that shows how poets perceived the new
technology of cinema as a rival threatening to their prestige, but
also as a sister art deserving of encouragement. Each chapter
places a key poem at the center and takes up the issues arising
from the engagement of these two art forms, such as the poets'
mixed feelings about living in a national culture dominated by
visual media. Whether it is Hart Crane writing on Chaplin, Delmore
Schwartz on Marilyn Monroe, Frank O'Hara on James Dean, or Louise
Erdrich on John Wayne, poets have made sense of their own time by
reference to film icons and values shared by all Americans thanks
to the dream factory, Hollywood. As an increasingly popular genre
of modern poetry, and one that permits a unique view of this
century's dominant art form, the movie poem has needed an
explanatory book like this one. As cinema and television continue
to wield extraordinary influence over the lives of all Americans,
the efforts of poets to understand the visual culture will come to
be appreciated as central to the task of modern and postmodern
literature. This critical history is an important and timely
contribution to the study of American literature and American
institutions. ""One of the impressive things about the book is that
while pursuing the seemingly narrow category of poems-about-movies,
Goldstein is able to raise and illuminate virtually all the key
issues surrounding the poetry of the period."" - Roger Gilbert,
Cornell University "". . . a discerning book, combining criticism
and social history. It satisfies scholarly standards while
appealing to general readers."" - Philip French, coeditor of the
Faber Book of Movie Verse ""In this work, [Goldstein] provides a
new way of looking at American poets, both familiar and neglected.
The approach is chronological and thematic, and films are seen from
black, gay, Jewish, and feminist as well as middle-class white
perspectives."" Library Journal Laurence Goldstein is editor of the
Michigan Quarterly Review and Professor of English, University of
Michigan.
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