{"product_id":"imaginary-films-in-literature-9789004306325","title":"Imaginary Films in Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince cinema is a composite language, describing a movie is a complex challenge for critics and writers, and greatly differs from the ancient and successful genre of the ekphrasis, the literary description of a visual work of art. Imaginary Films in Literature deals with a specific and significant case within this broad category: the description of imaginary, non-existent movies – a practice that is more widespread than one might expect, especially in North American postmodern fiction. Along with theoretical contributions, the book includes the analyses of some case studies focusing on the borders between the visual and the literary, intermedial practices of hybridization, the limits of representation, and other related notions such as “memory”, “fragmentation”, “desire”, “genre”, “authorship”, and “censorship”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Massimo Fusillo  The Aesthetics of Imaginary Films Notes Toward a Theory of Cinematic “Ekphrasis” James A. W. Heffernan  The Killing Vision: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Stefano Ercolino  Hybridizations “Writing The Making Of”: A New Literary Genre? Jan Baetens  “A Film Run in Installments”: Memory and Cinema in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder Vincenzo Maggitti  Towards Other Worlds, Towards Other Meanings: Screenplays on the Edge of the Plot Clotilde Bertoni  Paul Auster, Hector Mann and The Book of Illusions Anna Scannavini  Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí: Cinema, Theatre, Television and the Creative Force of the Word Federica Ivaldi  Failed Cinema “Quo Vadis – Kino?” Kurt Pinthus and the Theoretical Debate on the Birth of Cinema in Germany Luca Zenobi  The Outer Life of Martin Frost, or Never Make an Imaginary Film Silvia Albertazzi  On Conceiving (and Sometimes Not Succeeding in Making) a Film Giulio Iacoli  The Politics of Imaginary Films The “Quasi-Truth”. Literature and Cinema in Starnone and Piccolo Gianluigi Simonetti  Breakfast at the Prater. Christopher Isherwood, His Women and Men Gian Piero Piretto  The Technological Imagery  Alpdrücken and the Spectrum of Power in Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Mirko Lino  Pattern Recognition: The “Postcinema” Seen by William Gibson Simone Arcagni  Bibliography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210677969239,"sku":"9789004306325","price":85.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imaginary-films-in-literature-9789004306325","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}