Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture /
Corkin, Stanley.
Athens : University of Georgia Press,
c1996.
Revision of the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
Introduction -- William Dean Howells and the order of progress -- Thomas Edison and the machine that sees -- Sister Carrie and the natural power of things -- Edwin S. Porter and the facts of intelligible narrative -- D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : positivist history as a compositional method -- Ernest Hemingway's In our time and the objectification of experience -- Epilogue : Realism in the late twentieth century.
American fiction
Motion pictures
Literature and motion pictures
Realism in motion pictures.
Realism in literature.