02704nam 22006854a 450 991077799250332120090217040810.01-283-06511-897866130651170-8223-9145-710.1515/9780822391456(CKB)1000000000757451(EBL)1170630(OCoLC)652364284(SSID)ssj0000390637(PQKBManifestationID)12138009(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000390637(PQKBWorkID)10450968(PQKB)11369325308677464(MiAaPQ)EBC1170630(OCoLC)1139401716(MdBmJHUP)muse78905(DE-B1597)553722(DE-B1597)9780822391456(EXLCZ)99100000000075745120090217d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPicturing American modernity[electronic resource] traffic, technology, and the silent cinema /Kristen WhisselDurham Duke University Press20081 online resource (288 p.)e-Duke books scholarly collection.Description based upon print version of record.0-8223-4201-4 0-8223-4185-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.1 The Early Cinema Encounters Empire: War Actualities, American Modernity, and Military Masculinity -- 2 Placing Audiences on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century -- 3 Electric Modernity and the Cinema at the Pan-American Exposition: The City of Living Light -- 4 Regulating Mobility: Traffic, Technology, and Feature-Length Narrativity.Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization.e-Duke books scholarly collection.Technology in motion picturesTransportation in motion picturesWar filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismSilent filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismTechnology in motion pictures.Transportation in motion pictures.War filmsHistory and criticism.Silent filmsHistory and criticism.791.43/656Whissel Kristen1969-1123459ebrary, Inc.NcDNcDBOOK9910777992503321Picturing American modernity3815352UNINA