Dickens and the Dream of Cinema
Dickens and the dream of cinema seeks to dissolve the barriers between literary and film studies. Grahame Smith, a major Dickens scholar who has also taught, researched and published in the field of film, suggests that Dickens's work plays a seminal role in the emergence of cinema. Taking his cue from Walter Benjamin's concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow, Smith argues that Dickens's novels can be regarded as proto-filmic in the detail of their language as well as their larger formal structures. This possibility arises from Dickens's creative engagement with the city as metropolis, as it emerges in the London of the 1830…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7190-5563-8
- EAN: 9780719055638
- Produktnummer: 1540907
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 206 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 298 g
- Gewicht: 298
Über den Autor
Grahame Smith is Professor (Emeritus) of English Studies at the University of Stirling
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