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Cinema and modernism

Cinema and modernism


Modernism was concerned with everyday life, perception, time and the kaleidoscopic and fractured experience of urban space. Cinema, with its techniques of close-up, panning, flashbacks and montage played a major role in shaping experimental works such as Mrs Dalloway or Ulysses. Here Laura Marcus explores the impact of cinema on modernist literature.

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Modernism and Film - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies - obo

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Expressionism

How to Talk Experimental Film: A User's Guide

Under the Skin: Analysis of Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

Under the Skin - Sound

House of Flying Daggers - Wuxia Romance

House of Flying Daggers - mise-en-scene

Superimposition in film

Nick Broomfield interview

Shaun of the Dead - 'The Plan' montage

Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation

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Teacher of Science (possibility to combine with a head of year post)

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