Camera works : photography and the twentieth-century word / Michael North.

Main entry:

North, Michael, 1951-

Title & Author:

Camera works : photography and the twentieth-century word / Michael North.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Description:

255 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246) and index.
Introduction: Mechanical Recording and the Modern Arts -- The Logocinema of the Little Magazines -- Camera Work: The Hieroglyphics of the New Photography -- Transition: The Movies, the Readies, and the Revolution of the Word -- Close Up: International Modernism's Struggle with Sound -- Spectatorship, Media Relations, and Modern American Fiction -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Spectroscopic Fiction -- An Eyeminded People: Spectatorship in Dos Passos' U.S.A. -- Du Bois, Johnson, and the Recordings of Race -- Ernest Hemingway's Media Relations.

Summary:

'Camera Works' is about the impact of photography and film on modern art and literature. With examples from the avant-garde of the little magazines and from classic authors like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, it argues that literature and art become modern byresponding to these new means of representation.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0195173562 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780195173567 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780195332933
0195332938

Subject:

Photography Social aspects 20th century.
Photography Influence 20th century.
Photography History 20th century.
Literature and photography History 20th century.
Literature and photography 20th century.
Photographie Aspect social 20e siècle.
Photographie Influence 20e siècle.
Littérature et photographie 20e siècle.
Photographie Histoire 20e siècle.
Littérature et photographie Histoire 20e siècle.
Literature and photography.
Photography.
Photography Influence.
Photography Social aspects.
Photography Social aspects History 20th century.
Fotografi, historik.
Fotografi och konst.
Fotografi och litteratur.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245052
Call No.: TR183 .N67 2005
Status: Available

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