Iris Barry, writer and cinéaste, forming film culture in London 1924-1926: The Adelphi, the spectator, the film society, and the British vogue

Modernism - Modernity

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 488-515

  Hankins, Leslie Kathleen ^a  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery

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DOI: 10.1353/mod.2004.0057     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Sidney Bernstein and Ivor Montagu, "Iris Barry," Times (London) 3 January .1970.
2. See James Donald, Anne Friedberg, and Laura Marcus; Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998);
3. Rebecca Egger, "Reading by Half-Light: Cinematic Spectatorship in Modernist Women's Writing" (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 1995);
4. Charlotte Mandel, "The Redirected Image: Cinematic Dynamics in the Style of H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)." Literature/Film Quarterly 11 (1983): 36-45
5. Adelaide Morris, "The Concept of Projection: H.D.'s Visionary Powers," Contemporary Literature 25 (Winter 1984): 411-36;
6. Susan Gevirtz, Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (New York: Peter Lang, 1996).
7. For some references to Iris Barry, see Peter Brooker, Modernity and Metropolis (London: Palgrave, 2001);
8. Peter Brooker, Bohemia in London (London: Palgrave, 2004).
9. See my "'Across the screen of my brain': Virginia Woolf's 'The Cinema' and Film Forums of the Twenties," in Virginia Woolfs Multiple Muses, ed. Diane Filby Gillespie (Columbus: University of Missouri Press,1993), 148-79;
10. "A Splice of Reel Life in Virginia Woolfs 'Time Passes': Censorship, Cinema and 'the usual battlefield of emotions,'" Criticism (winter 1993), 91-114;
11. Iris Barry, Let's Go to the Pictures ( London: Chatto and Windus, 1926);
12. Iris Barry, "The Ezra Pound Period," the Bookman (October 1931): 159-71.
13. Peter Wollen, Alan Lovell, and Sam Rhodie, "Interview with. Ivor Montagu in. London on 24 May 1972," Screen 13. 3 (autumn 1972): 72.
14. Aldous Huxley, "Where are the Movies Moving? The Brilliant Success of the Cinema in Portraying the Fantastic and Preposterous," Vanity Fair, (July 1925): 39, 78;
15. Ivor, Montagu, "Birmingham Sparrow: In Memoriam, Iris Barry 1896-1969," Sight and Sound 39: 2 (spring 1970), 107.
16. Wollen et al., "Interview": 72.
17. Montagu, "Birmingham Sparrow," 107.
18. Wollen, "Interview": 72. I discuss this riot in my essay "Across the screen of my brain," 53-4.
19. Ivor Montagu, "Old Man's Mumble: Reflections on a Semi-Centenary," Sight and Sound 44:4 (Autumn 1975): 223.
20. Ivor Montagu, "The Film Society: 18th Performance. November 13," Close Up 2:1 (January 1928): 81-2;
21. P. L. M, "The Film Society: Successful Second Show," Kine-Weekly (1925) 63;
22. Milton Waldman, "The Movies: Review of Film Society 6th Performance": 81-2;
23. Gilbert Seldes, "The Abstract Movie," New Republic, (15 September 1926).
24. Iris Barry, "Three Films," the Adelphi. (March 1924): 926-29;
25. Iris Barry, "Comparison of the Arts," the Spectator 3 May 1924: 707; hereafter abbreviated "CA."
26. For pioneering studies of Bloomsbury in the British Vogue, see Jane Garrity, "Selling Culture to the 'Civilized': Bloomsbury, British Vogue, and the Marketing of National Identity," Modernism/ Modernity 6 no. 2 (1999): 29-58;
27. Jane Garrity, "Virginia Woolf, Intellectual Harlotry and 1920s British Vogue," Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, ed. Pamela L. Caughie (New York: Garland Press, 2000): 185-218;
28. and Nicola Luckhurst, Bloomsbury in Vogue (London: Cecil Woolf Bloomsbury Heritage), 1998.
29. Iris Barry, "The Scope of Cinema," Vogue (Late August 1924): 65, 76; hereafter abbreviated "SC."
30. Iris Barry, "The Autumn Cinema," Vogue (Late September 1924), 78.
31. "Table of Contents," Vogue (Early January 1925), i.
32. Bonamy Dobrée, "Seen on the Stage," Vogue (Late December 1925): 64, 82;
33. Iris Barry, "The Cinema Continues to Improve," Vogue (Late February 1925); hereafter abbreviated "CC."
34. Iris Barry, "The Cinema," Vogue (Early February 1926), 52-3; hereafter abbreviated "C."
35. Bryher, "More about Films," review of Let's go to the Pictures by Iris Barry, Outlook, 22 January 1927.
36. Margaret Barr, "The Belle of Bloomsbury" in Remembering Iris Barry (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980), 4.
37. Iris Barry, "The Cinema: The Necessity for Good Films" the Spectator, 24 October 1925: 692.
38. Sidney Bernstein and Ivor Montagu, "Iris Barry," London Times, 3 January 1970.