Description: The book examines how 19th- and 20th-century French-speaking poets have used cinema for cross-medium writing experiments, especially in the aftermath of the two world wars, thereby altering modernist literary imagination.
Brief description: Christophe Wall-Romana is Associate Professor of French at the University of Minnesota.
Review Quotes:
"Wall-Romana uncovers a not previously recognized genre in French
literature: cinepoetry: a modernist poem that responds to challenges
the cinema posed to writing. This book traces the new genre from
Mallarme's Une Coup de Des to contemporary work, revealing how poets
have found inspiration in cinema's visuality, control of movement and
projected light -- and in the process discovered new forms for poetry."