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"A New Appropriate Poetry": Gender and the Language Track in Muriel Rukeyser's A Place to Live.
- Source :
- Modernism/Modernity; Sep2023, Vol. 30 Issue 3, p495-514, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Amid the active landscape of documentary film in the early 1940s, the poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a short screenplay advocating for public housing in Philadelphia. Despite its distinguished production team and Oscar nomination, A Place to Live (Brandon Films, 1941) has not been contextualized by scholarly work. This essay considers Rukeyser's narrative innovations as A Place to Live follows one family's desire for publicly funded housing. Rukeyser uses montage to establish a dialectical contrast between the conventions of male enunciatory authority and the film's female subject, who rises to an identificatory position that requires audience response. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10716068
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Modernism/Modernity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175726563
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a920254