| Literature and the Visual Media Contributor(s): Seed, David (Editor), Watts, Carol (Contribution by), Seed, David (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1843840561 ISBN-13: 9781843840565 Publisher: Boydell & Brewer OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2005 Annotation: Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernists is then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of women in contemporary fiction and film. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2007540981 |
| Series: Essays and Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.6" (1.10 lbs) 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernistsis then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of women in contemporary fiction and film. |
Contributor Bio(s): Seed, David: - Professor David Seed is a Lecturer at the School of English, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. |