Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgement; List of abbreviations; Introduction: cinematic modernism; 1. Modernism, male hysteria and montage; 2. 'Delight in dislocation': Stein, Chaplin and Man Ray; 3. William Carlos Williams and surrealist film: 'a favourable distortion'; 4. H. D.'s borderline bodies; 5. Marianne Moore: film, fetishism and her 'Ballet Mécanique'; Conclusion: modern dissociation and All About Eve; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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A study of the interactions between the techniques of avant-garde cinema and modernist poetry.

About the Author

Susan McCabe is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Reviews

"[An] ambitious, innovative study ... [with] bold juxtapositions of ideas... McCabe's linkages are precise, original, and bibliographically extensive. Her network of inquiry discovers connective neurons from modernist poems and film scenarios to psychological, literary and film theories of past and recent publication. She proves the range of "cinematic modernism" to be wide, deep, and generative." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920