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Time material: temporality, narrative, and modernity in silent film and American naturalism

dc.creatorFusco, Katherine
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-22T20:37:50Z
dc.date.available2010-08-05
dc.date.issued2008-08-05
dc.identifier.urihttps://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-07282008-121704
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1803/13673
dc.description.abstractBy 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.
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dc.subjectModernity
dc.subjectNaturalism
dc.subjectSilent Film
dc.subjectAmerican Literature
dc.subjectTime
dc.titleTime material: temporality, narrative, and modernity in silent film and American naturalism
dc.typedissertation
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thesis.degree.namePHD
thesis.degree.leveldissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorVanderbilt University
local.embargo.terms2010-08-05
local.embargo.lift2010-08-05
dc.contributor.committeeChairPaul Young
dc.contributor.committeeChairCecelia Tichi


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