Description
Upholding literature and film together as academically interwoven, Perpetual Carnival underscores the everlasting coexistence of realism and modernism, eschewing the popularly accepted view that the latter is itself a rejection of the former. Mining examples from both film and literature, Colin MacCabe asserts that the relationship between film and literature springs to life a wealth of beloved modernist art, from Jean-Luc Godard's Pierre le Fou to James Joyce's Ulysses, enriched by realism's enduring legacy. The intertextuality inherent in adaptation furthers this assertion in MacCabe's inclusion of Roman Polanski's Tess, a 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century realist novel, Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Showcasing essays enlivened by cosmopolitan interests, theoretical insight, and strong social purpose, Perpetual Carnival supports a humanities which repudiates narrow specialization and which seeks to place the discussion of film and literature firmly in the reality of current political and ideological discussion. It argues for the writers and directors, the thinkers and critics, who have most fired the contemporary imagination.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsPreface by Terry EagletonIntroduction: Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and LiteratureModernismA Modernist ManifestoCinema and ModernismModernism as RealismShakespeareReview of Frank Kermode's Shakespeare's LanguageReview of Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the WorldReview of Peter Ackroyd's Shakespeare: The BiographyTanner and ShakespeareLanguage, Literacy and literatureTelevision and LiteracyCompacted Doctrines: William Empson and the Meaning of Words (with Alan Durant)Why are the Arabs not free?Frank Kermode: The Greatest Literary CriticIn Words We Are Made Flesh: Towards a New Cambridge PhilologyTheoryA Defense of CriticismBarthes and Bazin: The Ontology of the ImageBataille and EroticismThe Schreber case: How Queer was Freud?Film Godard: The Commerce of CinemaFilm Essays from Criterion:Polanski: The Truest TessPasolini's Trilogy of LifeThe Decameron: The Past is the PresentThe Canterbury Tales: Sex and DeathArabian Nights: Brave Old WorldRossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis X1VSound, Image and Every Man for HimselfKieslowski's Three ColorsSudden Death: Asseyas's CarlosReport from Cannes 2015: Lazlo Nenes's Son of SaulDerek Jarman: A Lost LeaderWatching Films to Mourn the Death of Empire: Introduction to a websitePolitics and CultureAn Interview with Stuart HallOur Fenian Dead: The Inheritance of Martyrdom (with Jennifer Keating)
