The Novel after Film Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy

Jonathan Foltz, "The Novel after Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy"
English | ISBN: 0190676493 | 2017 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 23 MB
According to prevailing media histories, film long ago ought to have rendered the novel obsolete. The irony of this story is that the "death of the novel" at the hands of film has for a long time now been a pervasive trope of the novel's continued reinvention. The Novel After Film offers a substantial reassessment of this paradoxical new condition of novelistic practice in which writers have re-imagined the novel in the shadow of film. In the cinema, a generation of modernist writers found a medium whose bad form was also laced with the glamor of the popular, and whose unfamiliar visual language seemed to harbor a future for innovative writing after modernism. How did the cinema-with its crude continuities, crowded theaters, stock Descriptions, and ghostly images-seem to flout conventional ideas of narrative form? What new literacies of experience and representation did film seem to promise?