Verse, voice, and vision : poetry and the cinema / edited by Marlisa Santos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Santos, Marlisa, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and literature.

Poets in motion pictures.

Poetry in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland ; Toronto, [Ontario] ; Plymouth, England : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

Summary:

This collection of essays explore the relationship between one of the world's oldest art forms--poetry--and one of the world's newest art forms--film. These essays include analyses of biopics of poets, films inspired by particular poems, cinematic representations of poets or poetic studies and the avant-garde phenomenon of the "poem-film.".

Contents:

Introduction

Poets on film. "Besides, there's no such thing as poets anymore": poetic relevance in Neil LaBute's Possession / by Susan Redington Bobby

Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle: film form and Parker's poetic legacy / by Carolyn Kelley

"A thing of beauty": art, commerce, and poetry in cinema in Bright star and Love and death on Long Island / by Ellen Moll

This aura sucks: narrative cinema and popular poetry criticism in So I married an axe murderer / by Liz Faber

Star/poet/director: poetry and image in Guru Dutt's Pyaasa / by Carrie Messenger

Chicken poets and rough poetry: figuring the poet and his subject(s) in independent Chinese cinema / by Qi Wang

Poetry as film. "Some are born to endless night": the Blakean vision of Jim Jarmusch's Dead man / by Hugh Davis

Into the woods: William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream and Peter Weir's Dead poets society / by Nichole DeWall

"Whither is fled the visionary gleam?": Wordsworth and consumption in Splendor in the grass / by Marlisa Santos

Film as poetry. "Qualcosa di concreto": mimetic fiction and spectrality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinema of poetry / by Roberto Cavallini

Terrence Malick's intimations of immortality: The tree of life as cinematic ode / by Suzanne Ferriss

A step away from the cinema: Hollywood and the poetry of Frank O'Hara / by Walter Metz

Poetic dialogue-lyrical speech in the work of Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch / by Jennifer O'Meara

The written verse in cinematic verse: Eliseo Subiela's El lado oscuro del corazón as a metapoetic text / by Juan G. Ramos.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-30525-5

0-8108-9210-3

OCLC:

938025666