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Vision´s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination
Peter Lurie
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Description for Vision´s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination
Hardback. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
William Faulkner occupied a unique position as a modern writer. Although famous for his modernist novels and their notorious difficulty, he also wrote extensively for the "culture industry," and the works he produced for it-including short stories, adaptations, and screenplays-bore many of the hallmarks of consumer art. His experiences as a Hollywood screenwriter influenced him in a number of ways, many of them negative, while the films turned out by the "dream factories" in which he labored sporadically inspired both his interest and his contempt. Faulkner also disparaged the popular magazines-though he frequently sold short stories to them. To ... Read more
William Faulkner occupied a unique position as a modern writer. Although famous for his modernist novels and their notorious difficulty, he also wrote extensively for the "culture industry," and the works he produced for it-including short stories, adaptations, and screenplays-bore many of the hallmarks of consumer art. His experiences as a Hollywood screenwriter influenced him in a number of ways, many of them negative, while the films turned out by the "dream factories" in which he labored sporadically inspired both his interest and his contempt. Faulkner also disparaged the popular magazines-though he frequently sold short stories to them. To ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801879296
SKU
V9780801879296
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About Peter Lurie
Peter Lurie is an assistant professor of literature at the University of Richmond and News International Research Fellow in Film Studies at Keble College, University of Oxford.
Reviews for Vision´s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination
Lurie fills a gap in Faulkner studies by looking at the influence of film and popular culture on the great Mississippian's work. Choice 2005 Well structured and elegantly written, this is one of the most important recent books on Faulkner.
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