Laura Marcus

Standard Name: Marcus, Laura

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Sybille Bedford
Nancy Mitford called A Legacyone of the very best novels I've ever read.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1999.
prelims
Evelyn Waugh called it entirely delicious . . . cool . . . elegant.
qtd. in
Dirda, Michael. “Sips from the finest vintage”. Guardian Weekly, 1–7 July 2005, p. 25.
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Reviewing a reprint for the...
Literary responses Michèle Roberts
The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Laura Marcus , saw the influence of Mary Daly in MR 's text. Praising the book, she cited its full [and] resonant prose,and its use of language and myth, which...
Reception Bryher
Close Up was influential. Jayne Marek describes it as the chief contemporary forum for debate about the social implications as well as the theory and practice of cinema.
Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
118
In 1998, Princeton University Press published...
Textual Features Dorothy Richardson
In March 1932, DR critiqued the new talkies as the film gone male and a medium for propaganda.
qtd. in
Watts, Carol. Dorothy Richardson. Northcote House in association with The British Council, 1995.
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This position was probably shaped by the darkening political climate in Germany and the rest of...
Textual Production H. D.
During 1927-33 HD contributed to the avant-garde, influential film magazine Close Up: Devoted to the Art of Films, which Bryher funded and of which Kenneth Macpherson was the official editor. It had a temperate...

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Texts

Donald, James et al., editors. Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism. Princeton University Press, 1998.
Marcus, Laura. “Feminism into fiction: The Women’s Press”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4304, p. 1070.
Friedberg, Anne et al., editors. “Introduction: Borderline and the POOL Films”. Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 212-20.
Friedberg, Anne et al., editors. “Introduction: Reading Close Up, 1927-1933”. Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 1-26.
Bryher,. “What Shall You Do in the War?”. Close Up, 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism, edited by James Donald et al., Princeton University Press, 1998, pp. 306-9.