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03908aam a2200457 i 4500 001 DC90CAC0EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220617010046 008 210402s2022 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021009096 020 $a 1978825072 020 $a 9781978825079 020 $a 1978825064 020 $a 9781978825062 035 $a (OCoLC)1245250592 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ283 $b .P273 2022 082 00 $a 840.9/007 $2 23 100 1 $a Parker-Flynn, Christina, $e author. 245 10 $a Artificial generation : $b photogenic French literature and the prehistory of cinematic modernity / $c Christina Parker-Flynn. 264 1 $a New Brunswick, New Jersey : $b Rutgers University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a x, 246 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Artificial Generation: Photogenic French Literature and the Prehistory of Cinematic Modernity looks at nineteenth-century literary representation and film theory, arguing that the depth of amalgamation that occurred within literary representation during this era is a key aesthetic tradition that continues to inform movies and contemporary culture today. A key part of this evolution in representation, a wide-scale artistic subjectivity around the re-emergence of the "artificial woman"-a notion that harkens back to longstanding expressions of mythological masculine subjectivity through the figure of the woman, refashioning important female figures that symbolize or problematize man's origins, including Eve and the Venus de Milo. This quest for masculine artistic subjectivity becomes a photographic and filmic drive by the turn of the century. The book explores the perpetuation of the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea in nineteenth-century literature. It then begins at the beginning of film history, with Georges MeÌlieÌs in the 1890s and other "silent" filmmakers, moving through Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and Bladerunner 2049 (2017), analyzing these twentieth-century films to illustrate how these film texts are structured around mythic and literary principles from the prior century that serve as the basis for film as medium-a phantom form for life's representation. The book provides a crucial reassessment of the longstanding, mutual exchange between cinematic and literary representation, offering a fresh perspective on the proto-cinematic imperative of simulation within nineteenth-century literary symbolism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: modernity's reori-gene-ation -- Part 1. The literary afterlife: TheÌophile Gautier's aesthetic resurrection -- Book of Genesis: the Villi-fication of woman in L'EÌve future -- Salomania: the unnatural oder of (beautiful) things in Oscar Wilde's SalomeÌ -- Part 2. Statuesque cinema: adapting literature, animating film -- See-through woman: reproductive delusions in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo -- Epilogue: still mother: adapting to life in Blade Runner: 2049. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a French literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Motion pictures and literature. 650 0 $a Motion pictures $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Representation (Philosophy) 650 0 $a Modernism (Art) 650 7 $a French literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934688 650 7 $a Modernism (Art) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024442 650 7 $a Motion pictures and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027410 650 7 $a Motion pictures $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01027348 650 7 $a Representation (Philosophy) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01094927 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117022147.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC90CAC0EE0211ECABFB385646ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search