Tuesday, May 16, 2006

started reading Susan McCabe's book Cinematic Modernism at the library. About HD and her connection with cinema, how cinema affected her poetics, etc. Just from the introduction are some cool quotes:

"Enter Cinema. It made visible a body, never visible before -- one that is at once whole and in pieces."

"Cinematic bodies haunt, permeate, fragment and are fragmented by representation."

"Silent film's status as a form of hieroglyphics promised that an Esperanto or universal language might be attained."

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