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Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life
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Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life
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Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums.
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- ONE Tracing the Individual Body: Photography, Detectives, and Early Cinema
- TWO Unbinding Vision: Manet and the Attentive Observer in the Late Nineteenth Century
- THREE Modernity, Hyperstimulus, and the Rise of Popular Sensationalism
- FOUR The Poster in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: âThat Mobile and Degenerate Artâ
- FIVE âA New Era of Shoppingâ: The Promotion of Womenâs Pleasure in Londonâs West End, 1909-1914
- SIX Disseminations of Modernity: Representation and Consumer Desire in Early Mail-Order Catalogs
- SEVEN The Perils of PathĂŠ, or the Americanization of Early American Cinemaâ
- EIGHT Panoramic Literature and the Invention of Everyday Genres
- NINE Moving Pictures: Photography, Narrative, and the Paris Commune of 1871
- TEN In a Moment: Film and the Philosophy of Modernity
- ELEVEN Cinematic Spectatorship before the Apparatus: The Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
- TWELVE Effigy and Narrative: Looking into the Nineteenth-Century Folk Museum
- THIRTEEN America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on Cinema and Modernity
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX