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Reading the Movies: Some Books for Cinephiles!2 comments

Ben wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been asked by fellow-blogger Movieman0283 over at The Dancing Image to join him and a few … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, World Cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, Cahiers du Cinema, Cinema, classical hollywood cinema, confessions of a nazi spy, David Bordwell

Movies in Literature Part 4: Paul Auster's 'The Book of Illusions'6 comments

Ben wrote 7 months ago:   Above are a couple of pictures of Hank Mann, a silent comedian with a big moustache. I think these … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, Chaplin, charlie chaplin, Cinema, clown, Entertainment, film, film theory

Movies in Literature Part 3: Leonard Cohen's 'Warning'8 comments

Ben wrote 8 months ago:                                               WARNING                                                … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, 1950s, 1956, canadian poetry, Cinema, cohen, Cold War, Family Values

Movies in Literature Part 2: John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' (continued)4 comments

Ben wrote 11 months ago:   John Steinbeck comes across as, like many writers, somewhat ambivalent about the value of cinema. … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, america, American Literature, Cinema, ekphrasis, film, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression

Movies in Literature Part 2: John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'2 comments

Ben wrote 1 year ago:   This novel came out in 1939. Steinbeck was trying to write, as he put it, a ‘truly American … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, Cinema, Entertainment, film, Grapes of Wrath, Great Depression, john steinbeck, Literature

Movies in Literature Part 1: Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer' (further continued)2 comments

Ben wrote 1 year ago:   I found this intriguing comment on the sequence we have been looking at from The Moviegoer. It was … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, blue velvet, Cinema, David Lynch, Dostoevsky, ekphrasis, elysian fields, film, Gentilly

Movies in Literature Part 1: Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer' (continued)

Ben wrote 1 year ago:   The above painting is Edward Hopper’s New York Movie (1939.) It is well known that Hopper wa … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, Hollywood, 1939, 19.60, bad faith, Cinema, Dashiell Hammett, David Lynch, Depression

Movies in Literature Part 1: Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer'

Ben wrote 1 year ago:   As you’ve probably guessed from the title this post is to be the first in a series offering … more →

Tags: Film and Literature, film, Literature, Cinema, Walker Percy, "moviegoer", Literature and Film, 19.60, ekphrasis


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