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Potential Cinema: Closet Film In Twentieth-Century Fiction

dc.contributor.authorRoth, Nicholasen_US
dc.contributor.chairAttell, Kevin D.en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSalvato, Nicholas Gen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBraddock, Jeremyen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberVillarejo, Amyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-25T18:40:34Z
dc.date.available2019-01-28T07:01:55Z
dc.date.issued2014-01-27en_US
dc.description.abstract: This dissertation lays the initial groundwork for theorizing closet film as a literary genre. Though closet drama--poetry written in playscript form--has received attention from a wide variety of critics in literary, performance and cultural studies, no such body of work exists for thinking about closet film--fiction written in the form of the screenplay. Aside from the self-published work of independent scholar Quimby Melton--with whom I have collaborated on his ongoing project to form an online bibliography of what he terms the closet screenplay-- there exists quite literally no field of study, nor any initial attempt to theorize the limits and potentialities of the genre. This project offers a theorization of closet film informed by the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, especially his focus on potentiality, which I argue helps describe closet film's tenuous stance toward production--closet film is a genre organized around the potential-not-to produce. Studying closet film also helps us rewrite the boundaries of what is considered possible in terms of literary and visual realism, and the "closet" itself constitutes an excellent new paradigm for understanding the space between film and the novel, opening up discussions of texts that have been largely overlooked or marginalized and enabling us to encounter old ones afresh. This project thus completely revamps our understanding of the novel and its relation to cinema, realism, ontology, and aesthetics.en_US
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 8442334
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/36144
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectContemporary Literatureen_US
dc.subjectFilm Studiesen_US
dc.subjectPotentialityen_US
dc.titlePotential Cinema: Closet Film In Twentieth-Century Fictionen_US
dc.typedissertation or thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish Language and Literature
thesis.degree.grantorCornell Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh. D., English Language and Literature

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