Knowing It When You See It Henry Jamescinema - Patrick ODonnell

Lively Analysis Of How Henry Jamess Fiction Anticipates Later Filmmakers' Concerns With What We Can See And What We Can Know.perched As He Was At The Beginning Of Literary Modernism And The Evolution Of Film As A Medium, Henry James Addressed A Cluster Of Epistemological And Aesthetic Issues Related To The Visualization Of Reality. In Knowing It When You See It, Patrick Odonnell Compares Several Late Novels And Stories By Henry James With A Series Of Films Directed By Michael Hanek, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, And Lars Von Trier. Odonnell Argues That These Issues Find Parallels In Films Made At The Other End Of An Arc Extending From The Last Decades Of The Nineteenth Century To The Initial Years Of The Twenty-first.