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




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> Date:    Thu, 24 May 2007 15:17:10 -0400
> From:    Scott Hutchins <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: novels about early cinema
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> 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?
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