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The nickel was for the movies : film in the novel from Pirandello to Puig / Gavriel Moses.
Author
Moses, Gavriel
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English
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Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.
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xxi, 335 pages ; 24 cm
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PN3503 .M627 1995
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Fiction
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Motion pictures in literature
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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.
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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.
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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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