Nolan Gear

Bio

Nolan Gear is an educator and film scholar living in Brooklyn. He studies the relays between early cinema and modernist writing, with particular focus on women's moviegoing cultures of the late 1920s. Most recently, Gear served as Core Lecturer in Literature Humanities at Columbia University, where he earned his PhD. He can be contacted at [email protected].

Contributions

“A curiously intimate sort of audience”: Moviegoing and Public Life in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bum

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Why moviegoing? Scholars assessing the imaginative contact between literature and early cinema have largely missed the moviegoer, who wanders off or risks getting lost in the dark. Image, close-up, montage, projection: these and other “technical” elements more quickly cohere, appear more self-evidently formal. As David Trotter put it in Cinema and Modernism, our understanding of literature’s relationship to cinema is all too often “committed . . . to argument by analogy.” [1] Within modernist...

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