The nickel was for the movies : film in the novel from Pirandello to Puig / Gavriel Moses.

Author
Moses, Gavriel [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
Description
xxi, 335 pages ; 24 cm

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    • The cinephobic novelist who complains to Fitzgerald's tycoon that he will never get the hang of scriptwriting probably wouldn't give a nickel for the movies. Yet with the invention of film, human perception was engaged in a more all-encompassing way than it ever had been by a single art form. In this ambitious investigation of a previously undefined narrative genre, Gavriel Moses exposes and explores the film novel, a literary text in which cinema provides the thematic, formal, psychological, and philosophical center.
    • Through close readings of works by the major representatives of the genre - Pirandello, Nabokov, Isherwood, West, Fitzgerald, Moravia, Percy, and Puig - Moses develops a persuasive theory to account for the novels that exploit the central role film has acquired in human experience.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315) and index.
    Contents
    • pt. 1. Pirandello: Man makes movies make man ; Icons unreal irony
    • pt. 2. Nabokov: Memory unreals ; Albinus fake movies
    • pt. 3. Film theory and literary genre: Film theory as narrative ; The film novel as literary genre
    • pt. 4. The film novel: The Hollywood novel: Isherwood, "Infernal machine" ; Fitzgerald, "Dream made flesh" ; West, "The barber in Purdue" ; The eyes have to know: Moravia, "Ghost in the cave" ; Percy, "Monkey see, monkey do" ; You can't imagine: Puig, "Dark inside the movie house" ; Puig, "Lots of lovely, lovely films"
    • pt. 5. Conclusion: The return of genre.
    ISBN
    • 0520079434 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520079434 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520079442 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780520079441 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    93016283
    OCLC
    27770564
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