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Dickens and the Dream of Cinema
Dickens and the Dream of Cinema
Author: Grahame Smith
Taking his cue from Walter Benjamin's concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow, Grahame Smith argues that Dickens' novels can be regarded as proto-filmic in the detail of their language as well as their larger formal structures. This possibility arises from Dickens' creative engagement with the city as metropolis, as it emerges...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780719055621
ISBN-10: 0719055628
Publication Date: 11/8/2003
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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