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.
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Jonathan Glazer on Under the Skin
Under the Skin - audiovisual alienation
Fallen Angels: A Wong Kar Wai Masterpiece
Naming, and Defining, Avant-Garde or Experimental Film
Film Education resource: House of Flying Daggers
Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article
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Hartismere Family :: Policy Documents
Print Exhibition at Wingfield Barns
A levels: pre-reading and research materials
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Examinations Modernism GCE ZEN Film Studies Documentary LAMDA Hitchcock Theatre Old Hollywood Wingfield Barns Theory Mocks British Auteur Students Art Work SOTD Under The Skin Hartismere The New York Times House Of Flying Daggers
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