Hi Scott, There's Luigi Pirandello's novel 'Shoot!' written I think in about 1916. It's posited as 'the diary of a cameraman' and is all about cinema, mechanisation and modernity. Walter Benjamin mentions it in his 'Work of Art' essay. Cheers Lisa On 5/26/07, SCREEN-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > There is 1 message totalling 25 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. novels about early cinema > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 15:17:10 -0400 > From: Scott Hutchins <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: novels about early cinema > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any novels about early cinema that are > from the period when such films were new. I recently read L. Frank Baum's > _Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West_, which is partly a fictional account of the > film scene in 1914, but mainly about a man falsely accused of being a jewel > thief. By the end I felt I'd learned more about pearls than an early > response to the film scene by someone who was both an insider and an > outsider at the very time he wrote the book. Can anyone think of other > examples of this sort of fiction? > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the WebMail system at cix.csi.cuny.edu > > > > > > ---- > Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex > podcast: > http://www.screenlex.org > > ------------------------------ > > End of SCREEN-L Digest - 24 May 2007 to 25 May 2007 (#2007-77) > ************************************************************** > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu