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“To Begin on Again”: A Study of Early Cinema’s Unique Influence on Modernist Literature
- Source: Film Matters, Volume 12, Issue 1, Mar 2021, p. 66 - 81
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- 01 Mar 2021
Abstract
This article examines the intersectionality of modernist literature and the advent of cinema, particularly in the context of the incomparable tragedies of the First World War in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s. Avant-garde writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot utilized cinema-inspired techniques in some of their most famous literary works, including Ulysses and “The Waste Land.” These techniques are especially salient in light of how much both the First World War and cinema altered societal notions of time, space, and motion.
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