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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819841303321

Autore

Feigel Lara

Titolo

Literature, cinema and politics, 1930-1945 : reading between the frames / / Lara Feigel [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-7486-5293-0

1-282-74989-7

9786612749896

0-7486-4265-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

791.436

Soggetti

Motion pictures and literature - History - 20th century

Motion pictures - Political aspects

Politics and literature - History - 20th century

Modernism (Literature)

Motion pictures - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Radical cinema -- Mass observing : the 1930s documentary gaze -- The documentary movement and mass leisure, 1930-1945 -- Camera consciousness -- Framing history : Virginia Woolf and the politicisation of aesthetics -- 'The savage and austere light of a burning world' : the cinematic Blitz.

Sommario/riassunto

This book tells the story of a generation of writers who were passionately engaged with politics and with cinema  exploring the rise and fall of a distinct tradition of cinematic literature.