Vision's Immanence : Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination / Peter Lurie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781421427676
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Contents:
Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture -- "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low -- "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! -- Screening readerly pleasures: modernism, melodrama, and mass markets in If I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Modernism, jail cells, and the senses.
Review: "To what extent was William Faulkner's deeply ambivalent relationship to - and involvement with - American popular culture reflected in his modernist or "art" fiction? Peter Lurie finds convincing evidence that Faulkner was keenly aware of commercial culture and adapted its formulas, strategies, and in particular, its visual techniques into the language of his novels of the 1930s. Lurie contends that Faulkner's modernism can be best understood in light of his reaction to the popular culture of his day." "Lurie takes particular interest in the influence of cinema on Faulkner's fiction and the visual strategies he both deployed and critiqued. These include the suggestion of cinematic viewing on the part of readers and of characters in each of the novels; the collective and individual acts of voyeurism in Sanctuary and Light in August; the exposing in Absalom! Absalom! and Light in August of stereotypical and cinematic patterns of thought about history and race; and the evocation of popular forms like melodrama and the movie screen in If I forget thee, Jerusalem. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism."--Jacket
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Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture -- "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low -- "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity -- "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom! -- Screening readerly pleasures: modernism, melodrama, and mass markets in If I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Modernism, jail cells, and the senses.

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"To what extent was William Faulkner's deeply ambivalent relationship to - and involvement with - American popular culture reflected in his modernist or "art" fiction? Peter Lurie finds convincing evidence that Faulkner was keenly aware of commercial culture and adapted its formulas, strategies, and in particular, its visual techniques into the language of his novels of the 1930s. Lurie contends that Faulkner's modernism can be best understood in light of his reaction to the popular culture of his day." "Lurie takes particular interest in the influence of cinema on Faulkner's fiction and the visual strategies he both deployed and critiqued. These include the suggestion of cinematic viewing on the part of readers and of characters in each of the novels; the collective and individual acts of voyeurism in Sanctuary and Light in August; the exposing in Absalom! Absalom! and Light in August of stereotypical and cinematic patterns of thought about history and race; and the evocation of popular forms like melodrama and the movie screen in If I forget thee, Jerusalem. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism."--Jacket

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