Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity
Christina Parker-Flynn, "Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity"
English | ISBN: 1978825064 | 2021 | 260 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1978825064 | 2021 | 260 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity investigates the intersection of film theory and nineteenth-century literature, arguing that the depth of amalgamation that occurred within literary representation during this era aims to replicate an illusion of life and its sensations, in ways directly related to broader transitions into our modern cinematic age. A key part of this evolution in representation relies on the continual re-emergence of the artificial woman as longstanding expression of masculine artistic subjectivity, which, by the later nineteenth century, becomes a photographic and filmic drive. Moving through the beginning of film history, from Georges Méliès and other “silent” filmmakers in the 1890s, into more contemporary movies, including Alfred Hitchcock’s
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