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Still the Moving World: Intolerance, Modernism and Heart of Darkness

Still the Moving World: Intolerance, Modernism and Heart of Darkness

Gilman, Ernest B.
Leondopoulos, Jordan

Hardcover

Series: Literature and the Visual Arts, Book 7

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismFilm Studies

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ISBN10: 0820413887
ISBN13: 9780820413884
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: May 1 1991
Pages: 210
Language: English
Nearly three-quarters of a century of criticism - much of it misguided, sometimes even wrong-headed - has obscured a crucial facet of D.W. Griffith's accomplishment in Intolerance. This original and lucid study argues that Intolerance is, like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a proto-modernist text. Both works exhibit an ahistoric consciousness of disorder, destruction and skepticism, and reflect - to different degrees - the aesthetic experimentalism of the early 20th century. Through a close analysis of Griffith's film and its manifold affinities with Conrad's tale - and more cursorily with the works of other exponents of modernism in the traditional arts - the author demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional criticisms of Intolerance as a cluttered, disjointed text, the film's eccentric form and unruliness are among the vital components of its meaning and modernity.

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