Verse, voice, and vision
Subtitle: poetry and the cinema
By: edited by Marlisa Santos
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Inc.; The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780810892095; 9780810892101
Subjects: Motion pictures and literature; Poets in motion pictures; Poetry in motion pictures
Description: "In Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema, Marlisa Santos has compiled essays that explore the relationship between one of the world's oldest art forms--poetry--and one of the world's newest art forms--film. The book is divided into three sections: poets on film, poetry as film, and film as poetry. Topics include analyses of poet biopics (such as Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle), filmic representations of poets or poetic studies (including Pyaasa), films inspired by particular poems (such as Splendor in the Grass), and the avant-garde phenomenon of the "poem-film" (such as The Tree of Life). Poetic influences considered in this volume range from William Shakespeare to e.e. cummings, and the films discussed hail from several different countries, including the U.S., the U.K., India, China, Italy, and Argentina."--Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Poets on film. "Besides, there's no such thing as poets anymore": poetic relevance in Neil LaBute's Possession / by Susan Redington Bobby; title: Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle: film form and Parker's poetic legacy / by Carolyn Kelley; title: "A thing of beauty": art, commerce, and poetry in cinema in Bright star and Love and death on Long Island / by Ellen Moll; title: This aura sucks: narrative cinema and popular poetry criticism in So I married an axe murderer / by Liz Faber; title: Star/poet/director: poetry and image in Guru Dutt's Pyaasa / by Carrie Messenger; title: Chicken poets and rough poetry: figuring the poet and his subject(s) in independent Chinese cinema / by Qi Wang; title: Poetry as film. "Some are born to endless night": the Blakean vision of Jim Jarmusch's Dead man / by Hugh Davis; title: Into the woods: William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream and Peter Weir's Dead poets society / by Nichole DeWall; title: "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?": Wordsworth and consumption in Splendor in the grass / by Marlisa Santos; title: Film as poetry. "Qualcosa di concreto": mimetic fiction and spectrality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinema of poetry / by Roberto Cavallini; title: Terrence Malick's intimations of immortality: The tree of life as cinematic ode / by Suzanne Ferriss; title: A step away from the cinema: Hollywood and the poetry of Frank O'Hara / by Walter Metz; title: Poetic dialogue-lyrical speech in the work of Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch / by Jennifer O'Meara; title: The written verse in cinematic verse: Eliseo Subiela's El lado oscuro del corazón as a metapoetic text / by Juan G. Ramos.