The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 is the annual peer-reviewed digital
journal of the Space Between Society, focused on interdisciplinary scholarship
of the two world wars and the decades between. This
special issue (planned for 2020) will address the emergence of world cinema between
1914 and 1945. We seek essays that are comparative, transnational, or devoted
to issues within a distinctive cinematic tradition. Essays should employ
digital media to illustrate cinematic perspective on the space between.
In the
first half of the twentieth century, film both mirrored reality and distorted
it, producing the most popular form of entertainment of the period. Did film
then record modernity or create it? Is there space between an emerging
modernist response and the techniques and depictions of cinema? What is the
relationship between film and modernism/modernity? This special issue intends
to raise such thematic and theoretical questions.