Film and Literary Modernism

Our starting point in this module is the idea of the 'encounter' between film and literature, and the various ways and means in which that encounter takes place: film and literature as media; the social and institutional structures that facilitate or impede the transfer between the two; the intellectual systems through which the questions of meaning and value raised by this process are addressed. We will also be concerned with our own encounters with this material through the medium of this module. You will be encouraged to identify the particular perspective you wish to develop, to explore your own ideas, and to respond to the approaches taken by other members of our group. Our classes will combine close reading sessions with small and large group discussions; you will also be asked to work together outside classes to prepare short presentations for our seminars.

2023

Cinema and Literature are two distinct but equally extraordinary works of art. Literature is looking for new ways of unfolding the plot, building text space, cinematography, new ways of interpreting the stories and developing a verbal layer of cinetext. Cinema becomes a way of transformation, of recognition, of perception of a person, by the method of familiarising the individual with a cultural layer. Through screening, Cinema not only indirectly acquaints a person with the texts of literary classics, but also participates in the development of literary text preventing its necrosis. Literature is becoming more and more pictorial and has been a way of artistic expression for centuries. Literature takes its readers on a journey of imagination that is away from the real world while cinema shows such an imaginative world before the audience and they do not have to put much pressure on their minds to delve into their imaginations. Literature is an art which is developed through writing while Cinema brings to life those writings to life through sound, music, visuals, and actors. Cinema is a filtered version of reality and it truly reflects society. Films are frantic and really look forward to connecting with their audiences, trying to fulfil what society truly desires. Cinema is the most popular of cultural practices reflecting a plethora of social, economic and cultural phenomena in modern society.

452F, 2018

Based on some of the work undertaken in the last four decades, and taking into account Pasolini’s lesson and studies on the circulation of ideas and the paradigms of art, Bourdieu ([1989] 2002), Sapiro (2009), Heinich (2014), Aguilar (2015), and Garramuño (2015), this monograph aims to offer a collection of proposals for theorising, understanding, and naming the presence of literary thought in cinema and visual arts. We are particularly interested in studying a form of presence that cannot be redirected toward adaptation, which overflows the limits of intertextuality, and that does not self-identify as re-writing. Rather, it is the partial inscription of the literary that does not aim to account for a totality and where the literary has been subjected to changes, appropriations and/or interventions determined by the artist’s creative project.

The Dawn Journal

Cinema and Literature are two distinct but equally extraordinary works of art. Literature is looking for new ways of unfolding the plot, building text space, cinematography, new ways of interpreting the stories and developing a verbal layer of cinetext. Cinema becomes a way of transformation, of recognition, of perception of a person, by the method of familiarising the individual with a cultural layer. Through screening, Cinema not only indirectly acquaints a person with the texts of literary classics, but also participates in the development of literary text preventing its necrosis. Literature is becoming more and more pictorial and has been a way of artistic expression for centuries. Literature takes its readers on a journey of imagination that is away from the real world while cinema shows such an imaginative world before the audience and they do not have to put much pressure on their minds to delve into their imaginations. Literature is an art which is developed through writing while Cinema brings to life those writings to life through sound, music, visuals, and actors. Cinema is a filtered version of reality and it truly reflects society. Films are frantic and really look forward to connecting with their audiences, trying to fulfil what society truly desires. Cinema is the most popular of cultural practices reflecting a plethora of social, economic and cultural phenomena in modern society.

2018

Modernist Cultures, 2010

From the time of Eadweard Muybridge's first successful experiments with stereoscopic fast motion photography in 1878, the history of cinema has been indissolubly linked with those of modernity and modern art. The rapid development of the new medium by Muybridge, William Friese-Greene, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, Thomas Edison, and Auguste and Louis Lumière in the 1880s and 1890s occurred during a period of artistic ferment and formal innovation in literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, opera and music. Even as the 'cinematograph' of the Lumière brothers (and Jean Aimé Le Roy), the 'Vitascope' of Edison, and the 'Bioscop' of Emil and Max Skladonowsky enjoyed their initial public triumphs in Paris, New York and Berlin in the mid-1890s, a bewildering variety of new movements in the arts-naturalism, symbolism, aestheticism, impressionism, decadence, modernismo, art deco, modernisme (the Catalan architectural movement) and verismo, to name only a few of the most prominent-flourished in Europe and the Americas. The subsequent worldwide success first of the silent movie and then after 1927 of the sound film significantly coincided with what has been traditionally regarded as the heyday of literary (and more generally artistic) modernism. At a time when the traditional boundaries of modernist studies are undergoing a radical and decisive remapping, and when the emergence of new media prompts us to reconsider the relationships among new technologies, cultural production and artistic expression, it seems altogether appropriate, and a matter of critical and theoretical importance, to pose (once again) the question of what the relationship is (or was) between modernism and cinema.

Beckett and nothing, 2020

Indian entertainment industry is among the fastest growing sectors in the country. Entertainment industries today are functioning in a highly intensified competitive environment, which calls for innovative solutions such that the problems are foreseen and solutions are visualized and planned in advance. Cinema has a great commercial value also. It is itself a great industry, Lacs of men and women are directly or indirectly employed in this industry. It is a good and easy means of advertisement. Things and articles can be shown in practical use through the films This paper presents some of the important innovative practices (also called upcoming trends) which are likely to be adopted by multiplex theaters in restructuring their business. It also helps to find out the contribution of literature in making cinema. The main objective of this research paper are to find out the impact of literature on cinema, its role incinema, its co-relation in cinema, its contribution to cinema. In our study of literature and cinema, particular attention will be paid to find out whether the literature is really make any impact on cinema or not, it also help to find out the role and co-relation of literature to the cinema. It also provides information about the contribution of literature to cinema. In this research 100 sample size is taken into consider for the study. For this research primary and secondary data is collected through questionnaire method to find out the conclusion.

2004

This series aims to provide theoretically ambitious but accessible volumes devoted to the major fields and subfields within cultural studies, whether as single disciplines (film studies) inspired and reconfigured by interventionist cultural studies approaches, or from broad interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives (gender studies, race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies). Each volume sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range of specially commissioned articles and also to provide the more experienced scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions. An overarching Companion to Cultural Studies will map the territory as a whole.