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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 529–550.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., of aptitude. Though they began as extensions of his critical thought, Richards’s screen experiments led him to a different understanding of how media operate as complex multisensory channels of audiovisual stimuli. Richards was increasingly drawn to film and television in particular, and to the prospect...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 509–527.
Published: 01 December 2023
... because his use of new media was premature, inadequate to his ambitious aims. Nonetheless, his anticipation of our obsession with “screens” was prescient and is worth a careful reconsideration. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Washington 2023 media screen page...
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in “Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
> Modern Language Quarterly
Published: 01 June 2017
Figure 1. Elliott Service Company advertisement, presenting Warner Brothers’ “Screen Classics” campaign (featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald). Film Daily , October 1, 1922
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Figure 1. Elliott Service Company advertisement, presenting Warner Brothers’ “Screen Classics” campaign (featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald). Film Daily , October 1, 1922 ...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 June 1975
...Enoch Brater Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 THE THINKING EYE IN BECKETT’S FILM
By ENOCHI~RATER
Samuel Beckett’s twenty-two-minute “comic and unreal” Film,’ pre-
sentirig Buster Keaton in his last performarice on screen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 December 2023
... intersection with media theory was the result of further thinking about issues of communication, especially in the context of pedagogy. In the 1940s he began to supplement his teaching with various media, including illustrations, projected diagrams, and projections of literary works onto a screen in a darkened...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (3): 251–261.
Published: 01 September 1957
... the Japanese a feeling for decora-
tion in line and color. More specifically, he borrowed the technique
of low and high horizons, a method of limiting space by panels and
screens, the raised angle of vision, and the use of partially presented
20 Like-Symons, William Rothenstein. Men...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
...,
19 Edwin W. Chen, “Musical China, Classical Impression: A Preliminary Study of
Shaw’s Huangmei Diao Film,” in The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study, ed. Wong Ain-ling
(Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2003), 51 – 73.
20 Serfs follows the pattern of what Clark calls the “hard...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1943) 4 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 June 1943
...
sought to destroy the son of Zeus, an intention which Zeus thwarted
by causing the nymphs of Nysa to conceal his son in a cave screened
with ivy. The seventh of the Homeric Hymns relates the capture of
Dionysus by pirates, and how a dark ivy-plant presently grew up
around the ship’s mast...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (3): 323–350.
Published: 01 September 1997
... to take in John Gavin and Janet Leigh partially
undressed on the bed. From that moment the viewer’s voyeurism is
located at once on the screen, in the movement of the camera, and in
the darkened theater, in the body of the spectator.
Hitchcock endows Sabotage with the body’s weight...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1978) 39 (1): 78–79.
Published: 01 March 1978
.... By DAVIDG. RICHARDS.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977. xii i- 289 pp. $25.00.
At a time when rising publication costs have supposedly caused a more
rigorous screening of scholarly books than ever before, it is strange that a
book as poor as this one should appear in print...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (2): 248–249.
Published: 01 June 1940
... and Co., 1940. $2.25.
Whenever literature returns to the human spirit for its inspira-
tion, Shakespeare, according to Mr. Spencer, comes to the front
again. Since that is what is happening today on the stage, screen
and radio, the time seems ripe to him for a new book on Shake...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (4): 369–388.
Published: 01 December 1981
...,
projected televised images on a gargantuan screen, and belted out a
concluding musical number which might bring down the house in Las
Vegas.
Jumpers, in short, is a good show. Whether or not it is more than a
facile revue-sketch, its overt theatricality assures it of a successful place...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (3): 327–345.
Published: 01 September 2024
... maps. (I have a strict no-phones policy at public events, so I was trying to avoid looking, but the glowing screens were right in my line of sight and I am also a distractible human citizen of the twenty-first century.) At one point there was a collision at first base, followed by a questionable call...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (3): 323–338.
Published: 01 September 1944
... screen.
Do thou, Crispissa, tend her fav’rite Lock;
Ariel himself shall be the guard of Shock.40
From “British Queen” to “Indian screen,” from “Lock” to “Shock,”
here is the same bathos he more often puts into one line-“When
husbands, or when lapdogs breathe their last...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2018) 79 (3): 289–307.
Published: 01 September 2018
... different selves when making phone calls, surfing the internet, watching television, and communicating face-to-face. The subject-object distinction characteristic of the philosophical tradition from Descartes to Husserl has thus disintegrated in the everyday. For Miller ( 2015 : 66), “The television screen...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2001) 62 (2): 117–164.
Published: 01 June 2001
... elsewhere.”5 The cameo appearance—defined
without elaboration in the Dictionary of Film Terms as “a screen role of
short but memorable duration,” performed by an actor “who is usually
from a theoretical matrix of Lacan and Foucault, among others, and so push toward...
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Modern Language Quarterly 11426383.
Published: 18 September 2024
... old family letters, and uses the Ampurdán home as its setting. Instead of projecting Cati s lm on a screen, La indiana uses live actors to portray its scenes, which are interspersed in the contemporary story. Only in the play s nal scene does the audience realize that the scenes from colonial Cuba...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1997) 58 (1): 82–109.
Published: 01 March 1997
...), a collection of essays on early German film. Emil Jannings, Falstaff, and
the Spectacle of the Body Natural
Kenneth S. Calhoon
To say that Emil Jannings dominated the German screen during
and after the Weimar period is to allude to his imposing physical
size but also to acknowledge...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (2): 283–286.
Published: 01 June 2006
...James Tweedie James Tweedie is assistant professor of comparative literature and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He has published essays in Cinema Journal, Screen, SubStance , and Twentieth Century Literature and is working on a comparative study...
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