Perpetual carnival : essays on film and literature

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Perpetual carnival : essays on film and literature

Colin MacCabe

Oxford University Press, c2017

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Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former. Mining examples from both film and literature, Colin MacCabe asserts that the relationship between film and literature springs to life a wealth of beloved modernist art, from Jean-Luc Godard's Pierre le Fou to James Joyce's Ulysses, enriched by realism's enduring legacy. The intertextuality inherent in adaptation furthers this assertion in MacCabe's inclusion of Roman Polanski's Tess, a 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century realist novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Showcasing essays enlivened by cosmopolitan interests, theoretical insight, and strong social purpose, Perpetual Carnival supports a humanities which repudiates narrow specialization and which seeks to place the discussion of film and literature firmly in the reality of current political and ideological discussion. It argues for the writers and directors, the thinkers and critics, who have most fired the contemporary imagination.

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Table of Contents Preface by Terry Eagleton Introduction: Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature Modernism A Modernist Manifesto Cinema and Modernism Modernism as Realism Shakespeare Review of Frank Kermode's Shakespeare's Language Review of Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World Review of Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The Biography Tanner and Shakespeare Language, Literacy and literature Television and Literacy Compacted Doctrines: William Empson and the Meaning of Words (with Alan Durant) Why are the Arabs not free? Frank Kermode: The Greatest Literary Critic In Words We Are Made Flesh: Towards a New Cambridge Philology Theory A Defense of Criticism Barthes and Bazin: The Ontology of the Image Bataille and Eroticism The Schreber case: How Queer was Freud? Film Godard: The Commerce of Cinema Film Essays from Criterion: Polanski: The Truest Tess Pasolini's Trilogy of Life The Decameron: The Past is the Present The Canterbury Tales: Sex and Death Arabian Nights: Brave Old World Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis X1V Sound, Image and Every Man for Himself Kieslowski's Three Colors Sudden Death: Asseyas's Carlos Report from Cannes 2015: Lazlo Nenes's Son of Saul Derek Jarman: A Lost Leader Watching Films to Mourn the Death of Empire: Introduction to a website Politics and Culture An Interview with Stuart Hall Our Fenian Dead: The Inheritance of Martyrdom (with Jennifer Keating)

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