Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life / / Vanessa R. Schwartz, Leo Charney

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1995]; ©1995
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23/43
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Social aspects - 20th century; Popular culture - History; Culture in motion pictures; Music, Dance, Drama & Film; Film
• Persona (resp. second.): CharneyLeo; SchwartzVanessa R.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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: “That Mobile and Degenerate Art” -- FIVE. “A New Era of Shopping”: The Promotion of Women’s Pleasure in London’s West End, 1909-1914 -- SIX. Disseminations of Modernity: Representation and Consumer Desire in Early Mail-Order Catalogs -- SEVEN. The Perils of Pathé, or the Americanization of Early American Cinema¹ -- 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-Siécle 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life
• ISBN: 0-520-91642-5; 0-585-11457-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248237503316
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