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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.

Title Cinema and the invention of modern life / Vanessa R. Schwartz, Leo Charney.
Edition Reprint 2019.
Publisher Berkeley : University of California Press
Creation Date [1995]
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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
Extent 1 online resource (424 pages)
Language English
Copyright Date ©1995
National Library system number 997007876922305171
MARC RECORDS
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