Still Modernism

As the brilliant Still Modernism gives us the shock of the still, it also puts us to work, sets us in motion, to slip beyond the canon of moving modernisms to a modernism obstructed, arrested, made strange. * Alix Beeston, Modernism/modernity * This sense of haunting is very much at the heart of Louise Hornby's Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film, which considers the essential stillness of photography—rather than the perceived motion of cinema—as a quietly powerful undercurrent in the modernist reimagining of literature ... Hornby's writing on stillness is dynamic and fluid, gracefully blending photography, film, literature, and cultural theory in invigorating ways. * Keith Hopper, Notes and Queries * An accomplished and endlessly provocative study that takes complex visual theory by way of Roland Barthes, Stanley Cavell and others, and parses it down into thoughtful case studies, Still Modernism is a triumphant, unique work on visual and textual culture that acts as a bulwark against the marching juggernaut of modernism. * William Carroll , Screen * Still Modernism is an important book for those who wish to continue to reflect on the world of light, words, and stills that continues to surround us. * Massimo Bacigalupo, Modern Language Review * As the brilliant Still Modernism gives us the shock of the still, it also puts us to work, sets us in motion, to slip beyond the canon of moving modernisms to a modernism obstructed, arrested, made strange. * Alix Beeston, Modernism/modernity * This sense of haunting is very much at the heart of Louise Hornby's Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film, which considers the essential stillness of photography—rather than the perceived motion of cinema—as a quietly powerful undercurrent in the modernist reimagining of literature ... Hornby's writing on stillness is dynamic and fluid, gracefully blending photography, film, literature, and cultural theory in invigorating ways. * Keith Hopper, Notes and Queries * An accomplished and endlessly provocative study that takes complex visual theory by way of Roland Barthes, Stanley Cavell and others, and parses it down into thoughtful case studies, Still Modernism is a triumphant, unique work on visual and textual culture that acts as a bulwark against the marching juggernaut of modernism. * William Carroll , Screen * Still Modernism is an important book for those who wish to continue to reflect on the world of light, words, and stills that continues to surround us. * Massimo Bacigalupo, Modern Language Review *