| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Poets on film. "Besides, there's no such thing as poets anymore": poetic relevance in Neil LaBute's Possession / by Susan Redington Bobby -- Rudolph's Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle: film form and Parker's poetic legacy / by Carolyn Kelley -- "A thing of beauty": art, commerce, and poetry in cinema in Bright star and Love and death on Long Island / by Ellen Moll -- This aura sucks: narrative cinema and popular poetry criticism in So I married an axe murderer / by Liz Faber -- Star/poet/director: poetry and image in Guru Dutt's Pyaasa / by Carrie Messenger -- Chicken poets and rough poetry: figuring the poet and his subject(s) in independent Chinese cinema / by Qi Wang -- Poetry as film. "Some are born to endless night": the Blakean vision of Jim Jarmusch's Dead man / by Hugh Davis -- Into the woods: William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream and Peter Weir's Dead poets society / by Nichole DeWall -- "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?": Wordsworth and consumption in Splendor in the grass / by Marlisa Santos -- Film as poetry. "Qualcosa di concreto": mimetic fiction and spectrality in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinema of poetry / by Roberto Cavallini -- Terrence Malick's intimations of immortality: The tree of life as cinematic ode / by Suzanne Ferriss -- A step away from the cinema: Hollywood and the poetry of Frank O'Hara / by Walter Metz -- Poetic dialogue-lyrical speech in the work of Hal Hartley and Jim Jarmusch / by Jennifer O'Meara -- The written verse in cinematic verse: Eliseo Subiela's El lado oscuro del corazón as a metapoetic text / by Juan G. Ramos |
| Summary |
This collection of essays explore the relationship between one of the world's oldest art forms-poetry-and one of the world's newest art forms-film. These essays include analyses of biopics of poets, films inspired by particular poems, cinematic representations of poets or poetic studies and the avant-garde phenomenon of the "poem-film." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and literature.
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Poets in motion pictures.
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Poetry in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures and literature
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Poetry in motion pictures
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Poets in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Santos, Marlisa, 1970- editor of compilation.
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| LC no. |
2021676521 |
| ISBN |
9780810892101 |
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0810892103 |
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