The Visual Culture of Modernism (eBook)

Table of Contents 6
General Editor’s Preface 8
Acknowledgements 10
Introduction 12
Modernity: The Troubled Trope 22
The Efficiency of Images: Educational Effectivenessand the Modernity of Motion Pictures 42
Body Rebuilding: Tracing the Body at theDawn of the Cybernetic Age 62
Hitler goes Pop: Totalitarianism, Avant-gardeAesthetics and Hollywood Entertainment 86
Promotion vs. Suppression: Intermedial Relationshipsbetween Early Narrative Film and itsFan Magazine Fictionizations 106
I Am a Camera: The Development of ChristopherIsherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin acrossStage, Screen and Time 120
The Poetics of the Avant-Garde: ModernistPoetry and Visual Arts 138
Presenting the Real: Hopperesque Updike in“In Football Season” (1962) 154
The Cinema and Modernist Innovation: SerialRepresentation and Cinematic ImmediacyEffects in Gertrude Stein’s Early Portraits 170
Picturing the Depression: Ambivalent Politics ofRepresentation in FSA Photography 186
Haptic Close-ups and Montage: SurrealistDesire in Erich von Stroheim’s Greed andLuis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou 198
Time- and Space-Montagein Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours 210
Pathetic Copycats: Female Victimhood andVisuality in Melodramatic Films 226
Making the “Monstrous” Visible? Reading“Difference” in Contemporary FantasticFilm and Television 240
Notes on Contributors 256
Index of Names 262