H.G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: March 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781846310591
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; English; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - General; Performing Arts / Film / General
Description: "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. Previous studies have concentrated on adaptations: this study 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 later transactions, it gives equal weight to neglected British and continental European dimensions."--Jacket.