Literature and Visual Technologies

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introductions; J.Murphet & L.Rainford PART 1: PARAMETERS On Impurity: The Dialectics of Cinema and Literature; C.MacCabe How Newness Enters the World: The Birth of Cinema and the Origins of Man; L.Marcus PART 2: MODERNISMS International Media, International Modernism and the Struggle with Sound; M.North Gertrude Stein's Machinery of Perception; J.Murphet H.D.'s The Gift : an 'endless storeroom of film'; R.Connor Ulysses in Toontown: 'Vision Animated to Bursting Point' in Joyce's 'Circe'; K.Williams PART 3: BRIDGES Len Lye and Laura Riding in the 1930s: The Impossibility of Film and Literature; T.Armstrong Writing the Alphabet of Cinema: Blaise Cendrars; E.Robertson The Grammar of Time: Photography, Modernism and History; E.Gualtieri PART 4: AFTER THE MODERN How to Read the Image?: Beckett's Televisual Memory; L.Rainford Writing Images, Images of Writing: Tom Phillips's A Humument and Peter Greenaway's Textual Cinema; A.Plotnitsky & P.Geyh Index