Camera works : photography and the twentieth-century word / Michael North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

North, Michael, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects--20th century.

Photography.

Photography--Influence--20th century.

Photography--History--20th century.

Literature and photography--History--20th century.

Literature and photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Camera Works' is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazines and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern by responding to these new means of representation.

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Mechanical Recording and the Modern Arts; PART I: The Logocinema of the Little Magazines; 1 Camera Work: The Hieroglyphics of the New Photography; 2 transition: The Movies, the Readies, and the Revolution of the Word; 3 Close Up: International Modernism's Struggle with Sound; PART II: Spectatorship, Media Relations, and Modern American Fiction; 4 F.Scott Fitzgerald's Spectroscopic Fiction; 5 An Eyeminded People: Spectatorship in Dos Passos's U.S.A.; 6 Du Bois, Johnson, and the Recordings of Race; 7 Ernest Hemingway's Media Relations; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C

DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-246) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-533293-8

9786611906641

0-19-972133-5

1-281-90664-6

OCLC:

922953590