Realism and the birth of the modern United States
Subtitle: cinema, literature, and culture
By: Stanley Corkin.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Motion pictures -- United States -- History.; Motion pictures and literature -- United States.; Realism in motion pictures.; Realism in literature.; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
Description: This book offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the conventions of historical study, Stanley Corkin draws out the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics, and social life of the period.

Corkin traces the entrance of the United States into the modern age by considering the historical dimension of cinema and literary aesthetics: first of realism, then naturalism, and finally modernism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis.