Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Cinema and modernism

Cinema and modernism


Modernism was concerned with everyday life, perception, time and the kaleidoscopic and fractured experience of urban space. Cinema, with its techniques of close-up, panning, flashbacks and montage played a major role in shaping experimental works such as Mrs Dalloway or Ulysses. Here Laura Marcus explores the impact of cinema on modernist literature.

See also...

Modernism and Film - Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies - obo

Explore...

Do the Right Thing - Screenshot podcast

Understanding Fallen Angels

Naming, and Defining, Avant-Garde or Experimental Film

ED LACHMAN talks the cinematography of CAROL: Interview Exclusive

Under the Skin - Film Form, Narrative and Ideology

House of Flying Daggers - sound

Nick Broomfield interview

Understanding Fallen Angels - To be a Lost Soul

World of Wong Kar Wei - go 7 minutes and 13 seconds in!

House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

New...

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

8yS/Sc4

10S2 Moles

11S_Ch1 Potable and Waste Water

Summer 2026 Examinations

11S_Ch1 Life Cycle Assessments

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Examination Arrangements: Summer 2026

Discover...

Examinations Modernism GCE ZEN Film Studies College Avant-Garde The New York Times Documentary Carol Films Cinematography Revision Chem Oscars Captain Fantastic BFI Auteur Vertigo Hartismere Student Information

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...