Graham Smith

Dickens and the dream of cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

An original blending of literary and film studies which seeks to dissolve barriers between the two disciplines. Offers a new reading of Dickens from the perspective of film, technology and visuality. Proposes a new reading of the emergence of film in the light of social and industrial transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9780719055638
• ISBN-10: 0719055636
• Artikelnr.: 22005089

Autorenporträt

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster and Founding Chair of the Knowledge Network on Climate Assemblies (KNOCA). He is a leading authority on participatory and deliberative democracy, citizens' assemblies and climate governance and has been recognized as one of the top 100 most influential academics in government.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Exploratory 2. Machines and things: seeing and being seen 3. Explanation
4. A tale of two cities: Paris as panorama/ London as labyrinth 5. The
magic carpet of technology 6. Dickens, theatre and spectacle 7. Adaptation
8. Novel into film: the case of 'Little Dorrit' 9. Language and form A
Dream Epilogue Charles Dickens and Orson Welles Select bibliography Index