Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

P. Adams Sitney

Published by Columbia University Press 1990

Modernist Montage

The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

P. Adams Sitney

https://doi.org/10.7312/sitn92032

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Presents readings of modern texts and films concentrating of the later reaches of modernism from the 1920's to 1980.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Instant of Love: Image and Title in Surrealist Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Revolutionary Time: Image and Title in Soviet Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Moments of Revelation: Dreyer’s Anachronistic Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
4. Cinematography vs. the Cinema: Bresson’s Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. The Récit and the Figure: Blanchot’s Au moment voulu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
6. Saying “Nothing”: Persona as an Allegory of Psychoanalysis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
7. The Sentiment of Doing Nothing: Stein’s Autobiographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
8. Out Via Nothing: Olson’s Genealogy of the Proper Poem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
9. Whoever Sees God Dies: Cinematic Epiphanies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
10. Theology vs. Psychoanalysis: Landow’s Wit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 268

eBook

Published: May 6, 2019
ISBN: 9780231886680