______________________________________________________________________________ “I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them.”— Leonard Shelby, Memento (2000) “Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children, I suppose. But can we live without them?”— The […]
Longing for a Hollywood Ending – Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel
A Book Review Essay by Andrew Kolarik. [Author Pardis Dabashi] makes the case that an understanding of modernist authors’ relationship to cinema might allow their works to be read in a different light….” Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel (The University of Chicago Press) by Pardis […]