{"product_id":"literature-and-sound-film-in-mid-century-britain-hardcover","title":"Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLara Ehrenfried\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happened to cinema and literature when synchronized sound was introduced to the film industry in the late 1920s? \u003cem\u003eLiterature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain\u003c\/em\u003e studies the paths of film and text following this event. It asks how British cinema responded to the introduction of sound and how mid-century literature took up the challenge of the synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience offered by this media change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy examining the technological and industrial histories of film and its narrative strategies and by drawing links to twentieth-century literary culture, this study offers a new way of approaching mid-century writing and its media ecology. Developing innovative, audio-visual close readings, this book offers a multi-sensory, multi-media approach that reframes the relationships between cinema and literature in the twentieth century. The study addresses a wide range of film genres, such as musical film, screwball comedy, the thriller, documentary, and melodrama alongside the writings of a large group of authors including Elizabeth Bowen, Patrick Hamilton, Evelyn Waugh, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Henry Green, Jean Rhys, Ivy Compton-Burnett, and Eric Ambler. It covers an expansive range of films and texts of the 1930s and 1940s and invites readers to comprehensively rethink mid-century media culture by arguing for a growing synergy of film and text.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLara Ehrenfried, \u003cem\u003ePostdoctoral researcher, LMU Munich\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLara Ehrenfried completed her PhD in English Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Durham in 2020. In October 2021, she took up her current post as a postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich. Her research considers the intersections of sound, visual culture, and literature. \u003cem\u003eLiterature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain\u003c\/em\u003e is her first monograph.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.7 x 5.93 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837609402565,"sku":"9780198950769","price":184.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/i9p9udZIcz9780198950769.webp?v=1771281889","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/literature-and-sound-film-in-mid-century-britain-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}