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SPELL : Swiss papers in English language and literature

Volume 26 (2011)
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Table of Contents _
Preface: General editor's preface _
Article: Introduction _
Article: Modernity : the troubled trope 21
Article: The efficiency of images : educational effectiveness and the modernity of motion pictures 41
Article: Body rebuilding : tracing the body at the dawn of the cybernatic age 61
Article: Hitler goes pop : totalitarianism, avant-garde aesthetics and Hollywood entertainment 85
Article: Promotion vs. suppression : intermedial relationships between early narrative film and its fan magazine fictionizations 105
Article: I am a camera : the development of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin across stage, screen and time 119
Article: The poetics of the avant-garde : modernist poetry and visual arts 137
Article: Presenting the real : hopperesque Updike in "In Football Season" (1962) 153
Article: The cinema and modernist innovation : serial representation and cinematic immediacy effects in Gertrude Stein's early portraits 169
Article: Picturing the depression : ambivalent politics of representation in FSA photography 185
Article: Haptic close-ups and montage : surrealist desire in Erich von Stroheim's Greed and Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou 197
Article: Time- and space-montage in Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours 209
Article: Pathetic copycats : female victimhood and visuality in melodramatic films 225
Article: Making the "Monstrous" visible? : Reading "difference" in contemporary fantastic film and television 239
Rubric: Notes of contributors 255
Index: Index of names 261
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