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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lara FeigelPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.669kg ISBN: 9780748639502ISBN 10: 0748639500 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 June 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Radical Cinema; 2 Mass observing: The 1930s documentary gaze; 3 The documentary movement and mass leisure, 1930-1945; 4 Camera Consciousness; 5 Framing History: Virginia Woolf and the politicisation of aesthetics; 6 'The savage and austere light of a burning world': The Cinematic Blitz; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.ReviewsLara Feigel expertly disentangles the historical from the aesthetic in what was the critical moment in the evolution of film - when it began to talk and, more importantly, talk politics. Solidly based in the theory of cinetext which has developed over the last 40 years, and widely knowledgeable about the thirties, Feigel's monograph supplies an excellent foundation for future discussion and research in an increasingly central academic discipline. -- John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL Lara Feigel expertly disentangles the historical from the aesthetic in what was the critical moment in the evolution of film - when it began to talk and, more importantly, talk politics. Solidly based in the theory of cinetext which has developed over the last 40 years, and widely knowledgeable about the thirties, Feigel's monograph supplies an excellent foundation for future discussion and research in an increasingly central academic discipline. Lara Feigel expertly disentangles the historical from the aesthetic in what was the critical moment in the evolution of film - when it began to talk and, more importantly, talk politics. Solidly based in the theory of cinetext which has developed over the last 40 years, and widely knowledgeable about the thirties, Feigel's monograph supplies an excellent foundation for future discussion and research in an increasingly central academic discipline. -- John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus, UCL Lara Feigel expertly disentangles the historical from the aesthetic in what was the critical moment in the evolution of film - when it began to talk and, more importantly, talk politics. Solidly based in the theory of cinetext which has developed over the last 40 years, and widely knowledgeable about the thirties, Feigel's monograph supplies an excellent foundation for future discussion and research in an increasingly central academic discipline. Author InformationLara Feigel is Lecturer in English at King's College London. She is the co-editor (with Alexandra Harris) of a collection of essays about artistic responses to the seaside called Modernism-on-Sea (2009) and the editor of A Nosegay (2006), an anthology of literature about smell. She is also co-editing (with Natasha Spender and John Sutherland) the journals of Stephen Spender for publication in 2010. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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