Cinepoetry : : Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry / / Christophe Wall-Romana.

Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long his...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (504 p.) :; 51 Black & White and Color Illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Cinema as Imaginary Medium in French Poetry
  • Part One. The Early Poetic Sensorium of the Apparatus
  • 1. Mallarmé Unfolds the Cinématographe
  • 2. The Pen-Camera: Raymond Roussel’s Freeze-Frame Panorama
  • 3. Le Film surnaturel: Cocteau’s Immersive Writing
  • Part Two. Telepresence of the Marvelous: Cinepoetic Theories in the 1920s
  • 4. Jean Epstein’s Invention of Cinepoetry
  • 5. Breton’s Surrealism, or How to Sublimate Cinepoetry
  • 6. Doing Filmic Things with Words: On Chaplin
  • Part Three. Cinepoetry and Postwar Trauma Cultures
  • 7. The Poem-Scenario in the Interwar (1917–1928)
  • 8. Reembodied Writing: Lettrism and Kinesthetic Scripts (1946–1959)
  • Part Four. Cinema’s Print Culture in Poetry
  • 9. Postlyricism and the Movie Program: From Jarry to Alferi
  • 10. Cine-Verse: Decoupage Poetics and Filmic Implicature
  • Part Five. Skin, Screen, Page: Cinepoetry’s Historical Imaginary
  • 11. Max Jeanne’s Western: Eschatological Sarcasm in the Postcolony
  • 12. Maurice Roche’s Compact: Word-Tracks and the Body Apparatus
  • 13. Nelly Kaplan’s Le Collier de ptyx: Mallarmé as Political McGuffin
  • Conclusion: The Film to Come in Contemporary Poetry
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index