Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture

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Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture is written by Sarah Gleeson-White and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197558054 (ISBN 10) and 9780197558058 (ISBN 13).

Silent Film and the Formations of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion argues that the emergence of motion pictures constituted a defining moment in U.S. literary history. Author Sarah Gleeson-White discovers what happened to literary culture-both popular and higher-brow—when inserted into the spectacular world of motion pictures during the early decades of the twentieth century. How did literary culture respond to, and how was it altered by, the development of motion pictures, literature's exemplar and rival in narrative realism and enthrallment? Gleeson-White draws on extensive archival film and literary materials, and unearths a range of collaborative, cross-media expressive and industrial practices to reveal the manifold ways in which early-twentieth-century literary culture sought both to harness and temper the reach of motion pictures.