Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
Introduction: Things normally unseen -- Bodies bad and gentle: The surrealist convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives -- Black ash is white flesh: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane -- Frozen in the glassy, bluestreaked air: John Dos Passos's photographic metropolis -- Torn, burned, and yet dancing: The Hollywood writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- CODA: Shared hallucinations.
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"Building on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a new account of the relationship between photography and modernist writing--revealing the conceptual space of literary modernism to be radically constructed around the instability of female bodies"--
Dos Passos, John,1896-1970., Manhattan transfer.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott),1896-1940-- Motion picture plays.
Stein, Gertrude,1874-1946., Three lives.
Toomer, Jean,1894-1967., Cane.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott),1896-1940
Cane (Toomer, Jean)
Manhattan transfer (Dos Passos, John)
Three lives (Stein, Gertrude)
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and photography-- United States-- History-- 20th century.