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Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / Kristen Whissel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whissel, Kristen, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology in motion pictures.
- Transportation in motion pictures.
- War films--United States--History and criticism.
- War films.
- Silent films--United States--History and criticism.
- Silent films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065117
- 9781283065115
- 1283065118
- 9780822391456
- 0822391457
- OCLC:
- 652364284
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