dc.creator | Fusco, Katherine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-22T20:37:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-08-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-08-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07282008-121704 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/13673 | |
dc.description.abstract | By examining naturalist novels and silent films from 1895 to 1915, my dissertation projects backwards out of these representational “solutions” to identify a formal and philosophical problem: time as force. I argue that the early cinema approached the problem of time as an opportunity to demonstrate its representational capabilities as a new medium. In contrast, I suggest that naturalist novels and early narrative films registered a pervasive belief in temporal determinism on the level of narration and, as a result, frequently envisioned the passage of time as a limit to authorial freedom. Using two forms that obsessively posed and answered questions about temporal representation as a lens, I argue that conceptions of time as a force pervaded technological, aesthetic, and cultural discourses in the United States at the turn of the century. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | Modernity | |
dc.subject | Naturalism | |
dc.subject | Silent Film | |
dc.subject | American Literature | |
dc.subject | Time | |
dc.title | Time material: temporality, narrative, and modernity in silent film and American naturalism | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2010-08-05 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2010-08-05 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Paul Young | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Cecelia Tichi | |