Knowing It When You See It: Henry James/Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781438482774)

Perched as he was at the beginning of literary modernism and the evolution of film as a medium, Henry James addressed a cluster of epistemological and aesthetic issues related to the visualization of reality. In Knowing It When You See It, Patrick O'Donnell compares several late novels and stories by Henry James with a series of films directed by Michael Hanek?, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, and Lars Von Trier. O'Donnell argues that these issues find parallels in films made at the other end of an arc extending from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the initial years of the twenty-first. In mapping affinities between literature and film, he is not concerned with adaptation or discursivity, but rather with how the "visual" is represented in two mediums--with how seeing becomes knowledge, how framing what is seen becomes a critical part of the story that is conveyed, and how the perspective of the camera or the narrator shapes reality. Both James and these later auteurs "think" visually in ways that inter-illuminate their fictions and films, and newly bring into relief the trajectory of modernity in relation to visuality.

Author: Patrick O'Donnell
ISBN-10: 1438482779
ISBN-13: 9781438482774
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2021
Pages: 158
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d