Prof. Foltz’s New Book: The Novel After Film
Recently out from Oxford University Press is Prof. Jonathan Foltz’s first book, The Novel After Film. The Novel After Film is a study of the relation between film aesthetics and the development of the modernist novel. It offers a substantial reassessment of the paradoxical condition of novelistic practice in which writers have re-imagined the novel in the shadow of film. In the cinema, a generation of modernist writers, such as Virginia Woolf andAldous Huxley, found a medium whose bad form was also laced with the glamor of the popular, and whose unfamiliar visual language seemed to harbor a future for innovative writing after modernism. How did the cinema-with its crude continuities, crowded theaters, stock plots, and ghostly images-seem to flout conventional ideas of narrative form? What new literacies of experience and representation did film seem to promise? Read the book here.