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Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel up to the Second World War

Cinematic Fictions examines the impact of film on American fiction from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the Second World War. The argument that authors applied film techniques in their fiction has been frequently assumed but not pursued in depth. The original and extensive discussion here ranges from big names like Hemingway and Faulkner to inter-war documentary and African-American film writing. The reader’s report praises the study’s ‘impressive range of texts’ and its interdisciplinary potential for the teaching of ‘modernity and on visual and film cultures’.