| Description |
290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. An American Millennium: Vachel Lindsay and the Poetics of Stargazing -- 2. Hart Crane: Speaking the Mot Juste in the Age of Silents -- 3. Cut on Movement: Archibald MacLeish and the Temptations of Cinematic Form -- 4. Winfield Townley Scott and Delmore Schwartz: Halving Reality and Watching It Too -- Intermission: The Day of the Locust as a Rite of Passage -- 5. Karl Shapiro, "An American Jew and a Poet": Looking toward New Zion in the Golden State -- 6. "The Audience Vanishes": Frank O'Hara and the Mythos of Decline -- 7. "The Poet Is at the Movies": Adrienne Rich and the New Wave -- 8. "Mama How Come Black Men Don't Get to Be Heroes?": Colorizing American Experience -- 9. Fin de Siecle: Jorie Graham and the Rites of Self-Renewal in a Culture of Film -- Conclusion: "We're All You Know": Television and Personal History |
| Summary |
The first study of the engagement of motion pictures and poetry and a lively appraisal of what difference it has made in our cultural landscape. Goldstein proceeds both chronologically and thematically, undertaking a series of case studies supported by an impressive body of literary and cinematic references |
| Analysis |
American poetry 20th century History and criticism |
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American poetry History and criticism 20th century |
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Motion picture actors and actresses in literature |
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Motion pictures and literature United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture actors and actresses in literature.
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Motion pictures and literature -- United States.
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| LC no. |
93048036 |
| ISBN |
047208318X |
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0472105086 (alk. paper) |
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