Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
On Impurity: the Dialectics of Cinema and Literature....Pages 15-28
How Newness Enters the World: the Birth of Cinema and the Origins of Man....Pages 29-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
International Media, International Modernism, and the Struggle with Sound....Pages 49-66
Gertrude Stein’s Machinery of Perception....Pages 67-81
H.D.’s The Gift: an ‘endless store room of film’....Pages 82-95
Ulysses in Toontown: ‘vision animated to bursting point’ in Joyce’s ‘Circe’....Pages 96-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Len Lye and Laura Riding in the 1930s: the Impossibility of Film and Literature....Pages 125-136
Writing the Alphabet of Cinema: Blaise Cendrars....Pages 137-154
The Grammar of Time: Photography, Modernism and History....Pages 155-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
How to Read the Image? Beckett’s Televisual Memory....Pages 177-196
Writing Images, Images of Writing: Tom Phillips’s A Humument and Peter Greenaway’s Textual Cinema....Pages 197-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-220