"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."
"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."
" Peter Forgacs, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. "Cinema s Alchemist" offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which Forgacs reshapes such film footage, originally intended for private and personal viewing, into extraordinary films dedicated to remembering t ..."
Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Paperback) by TyrusMiller Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2020 by Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4744-7321-7, ISBN: 1-4744-7321-0
"Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and ..."
Time Images Alternative Temporalities in Twentieth-Century Theory, Literature, and Art by TyrusMiller 230 Pages, Published 2020 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5275-5664-5, ISBN: 1-5275-5664-6
"The concept of “time-image,” this book argues, holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural and aesthetic works."
"TYRUS MILLER Introduction Janus-Faced Lewis, Avant-Gardist and Satirist We
fight first on one side, then on the other, but always for the SAME cause, which is
neither side or both sides or ours. (“Manifesto,” B1 30) Nineteen-thirty-seven is a
grand year. We are all in the melting pot. I resist the process of melting so have a
very lively time of it. I know if I let myself melt I should get mixed up with all sorts of
people I would ..."
"The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the ..."
Modernism and the Frankfurt School(1st Edition) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture EUP) by TyrusMiller Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by Edinburgh University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-4018-8, ISBN: 0-7486-4018-5
"Tyrus Miller's book offers readers a focused introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in twentieth-century art, literature, and culture. The book pursues this interaction of modernity and modernist aesthetics in a two-sided, dialectical approach. Not only, Miller suggests, can the Frankfurt School's penetrating critical analyses of ..."
Singular Examples Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) (English and English Edition) by TyrusMiller, Marjorie Perloff, Rainer Rumold Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2009 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2511-7, ISBN: 0-8101-2511-0
"This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postw ..."
Singular Examples(1st Edition) Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) by TyrusMiller, Marjorie Perloff, Rainer Rumold Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2009 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2512-4, ISBN: 0-8101-2512-9
"This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's geographical span is primarily the United States, although in its more extended reach, it comprehends an international context of American postw ..."
Time-Images(Updated) Alternative Temporalities in Twentieth Century Theory, History, and Art by TyrusMiller Hardcover, 230 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-1258-0, ISBN: 1-4438-1258-7
"The concept of "time-image," this book argues, holds broad potential for the historical interpretation of cultural and aesthetic works. Many works that would not ordinarily be thought to be historical artifacts reveal their intrinsic historical character in light of this innovative interpretative concept. The book's first section,"Time-Images as Theory and Historiography," considers alternative temporalities underlying historicizing t ..."
"Over the past twenty years, the Review of Contemporary Fiction has earned a reputation for being one of the most important journals covering contemporary literature. Through essays, excerpts and an extensive book review section, the Review is dedicated to the discussion and celebration of innovative fiction, and some of the most influential authors of the twentieth century have been featured in its pages. The spring issue of the Revew o ..."
Late Modernism Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars by TyrusMiller 280 Pages, Published 1999 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92199-3, ISBN: 0-520-92199-2
"... transitional moment in the context in which their art would have been produced
and received.1 The two artists kill time together — talking, strolling, sitting in cafes
, telling stories to one another — in the Paris of the early 1930s, before their
separate departures from the city and passage beyond the French borders and
the frontiers of the book as well. Loy's eponymous artist-hero, the half-starved
and hallucinated "Insel," ..."
Late Modernism Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars by TyrusMiller Published 1999 ISBN-13: 978-0-585-07912-7, ISBN: 0-585-07912-9
Late Modernism Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World Wars by TyrusMiller Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21035-6, ISBN: 0-520-21035-2
"99 Poets/1999 presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, culture, and temperament. With contributions from the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and China, the volume features responses to questions posed by the guest editor Charles Bernstein—responses that range from historical to imaginary and from philosophical to poetic.Each poet wa ..."
Late Modernism Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars by TyrusMiller Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21648-8, ISBN: 0-520-21648-2
"Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution of modernism in the interwar years. In the post-World War I reconstruction and the worldwide crisis that followed, Miller argues, ..."
The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by TyrusMiller Hardcover, 202 Pages, Published 2016 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-05398-4, ISBN: 1-107-05398-6
"The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882 1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the ..."
The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by TyrusMiller Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2016 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-64573-8, ISBN: 1-107-64573-5
"The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882 1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the ..."