Modernism and new media
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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We can pinpoint the roots of High Modernism to the 1880s, a time when the first commercially available gramophones and phonographs were changing the way people listened to music. We can further pinpoint the end of modernism to 1930, which was the beginning of the sound film, changing forever the way people consumed fiction. Our history of Modernism is connected to new media that arose during what is sometimes called High Modernism: radio, phonograph and cinema.
There is a direct link between high modernism and cinema in an encounter between Sergei Eisenstein and James Joyce.
The stream of consciousness style of modernist literature appears to be indebted to the development of cinema, where narrativity was expressed differently.
The rise of cinema and "moving pictures" in the first decade of the 20th century gave modernism an artform which was uniquely its own.
