Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / / Kristen Whissel
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| Autore: |
Whissel Kristen <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / / Kristen Whissel
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/656 |
| 791.43656 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Technology in motion pictures |
| Transportation in motion pictures | |
| War films - United States - History and criticism | |
| Silent films - United States - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Picturing American modernity |
| ISBN: | 9786613065117 |
| 9781283065115 | |
| 1283065118 | |
| 9780822391456 | |
| 0822391457 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910959204803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.