Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature

Exploring the intersection of naturalism and early cinema, this book examines how these mediums influenced experiments with temporality and time management. It analyzes US naturalist novels, highlighting their formal and thematic critiques of human freedom in the face of inevitable time constraints. Through this lens, the work reveals the complexities of how narrative and film shape our understanding of time and agency during this transformative period in literature and cinema.