H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies [electronic resource].
Williams, Keith.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2007.
This book investigates Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. It plugs a gap in understanding Wells's contribution to exploring and advancing the possibilities of cinematic narrative and its social and ideological impacts in the modern period. Previous studies concentrate on adaptations: this book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic techniques and concerns of Wells's texts. It also focuses on contemporary film-making 'in dialogue' with his ideas. Alongside Hollywood's l
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Wells's Prescience; 1: Optical Speculations in the Early Writings: The Time Machine and the Short Stories; 2: The Dis/Appearance of the Subject: Wells, Whale and The Invisible Man; 3: 'Seeing the Future': Visual Technology and Urban Dystopia in When the Sleeper Wakes and Fritz Lang's Metropolis; 4: The 'Broadbrow' and the Big Screen: Wells's Film Writing; 5: Afterimages: Adaptations and Influences; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
This book investigates Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. It plugs a gap in understanding Wells's contribution to exploring and advancing the possibilities of cinematic narrative and its social and ideological impacts in the modern period. Previous studies concentrate on adaptations: this book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic techniques and concerns of Wells's texts. It also focuses on contemporary film-making 'in dialogue' with his ideas. Alongside Hollywood's l
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.
Science fiction films.
Wells, H. G.
Science fiction, English
Science fiction films
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature