Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

by P. Adams Sitney

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Tracing the history of modernism in cinema, this study provides readings of a range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. It argues that the act of vision and visual experience are problematized in literary modernism.
  • ISBN10 0231071833
  • ISBN13 9780231071833
  • Publish Date 29 October 1992
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Columbia University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 262
  • Language English