Literature, cinema and politics, 1930–1945: reading between the frames

Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930–1945 tells the story that unfolded between 1920s cinematic modernism and postwar cinematic neorealism, exploring the rise and fall of a distinct genre of politically committed cinematic literature. In this book, Feigel brings together ‘high’ and ‘popular’ literature and cinema: a discussion of working-class communist novelists such as John Sommerfield is followed by a section on the Auden generation and then by sections on Virginia Woolf, Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen. Avant-garde Soviet and German Expressionist cinema is examined alongside John Grierson’s British documentary movement and popular British cinema of the 1930s and 40s. Throughout the discussion, Feigel interrogates the genres she maps, drawing on cultural theories from the 1920s onwards to investigate the nature of the cinematic and the literary. While it was not possible to directly transfer the techniques of the screen to the page, any more than it was possible to ‘go over’ to the working classes, the attempts nonetheless reveal a fascinating intersection of the visual and the verbal, the political and the aesthetic. In reading between the framesof an unexplored literary genre, this book offers an important contribution to our understanding of 1930s literature and politics.

• ISBN: 978-0-7486-3950-2
• Editorial: Edinburgh University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés