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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pardis DabashiPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780226829241ISBN 10: 0226829243 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 07 November 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Arts of Inconsequence 1: Nella Larsen and Greta Garbo: On (In)Consequence Première Entr’acte 2: Djuna Barnes and Marlene Dietrich: On the Security of Torment Deuxième Entr’acte 3: William Faulkner and Early Film: On the Limits of the Present Coda: Max Ophuls: On Love and Finitude Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviews“Reevaluating one of the most familiar critical truisms about the period, Losing the Plot is an erudite, elegant, and insightful exploration of modernism’s ambivalent relationship to plot. Reading Larsen alongside Garbo, or Barnes alongside Dietrich, Dabashi shows us how the encounter with commercial narrative cinema allowed modernist writers to negotiate the double feelings of repudiation and longing for stability and coherence associated with the closure and teleology of plot.” * Dora Zhang, University of California, Berkeley * “Losing the Plot is an extremely ambitious book, one that aims to fundamentally rewrite and revise our understanding of modernist aesthetics in film and literature. By recasting plot as a modernist fantasy, and then by showing how cinema served as a model of that fantasy, Dabashi is able to provide an entirely original way of thinking about the relation between cinema and modernism, and indeed about modernism itself.” * Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago * Author InformationPardis Dabashi is assistant professor in the Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College and a faculty affiliate in the Film Studies Program and the Middle Eastern, Central Asian, and North African Studies Program. She is the coeditor of The New William Faulkner Studies, with Sarah Gleeson-White. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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