This study revolutionises our understanding of both literarymodernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recentscholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how centralcinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and howmodernist were the concerns of Chaplin and Griffith. This bookrewrites the cultural history of the early twentieth century,showing how film technology and modernist aesthetics combined toexplore the limits of the human. Offers major re-interpretations of key Modernist works,including Ulysses, The Waste Land, and To theLighthouse Explores film and film-going in works by Henry James, FrankNorris, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, and ElizabethBowen Offers original analyses of crucial phases in the careers oftwo of the most celebrated film-makers of the silent era, D.W.Griffith and Charlie Chaplin