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Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / Kristen Whissel.

Ebook Central Academic Complete Available online

Ebook Central Academic Complete

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2008 Available online

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2008
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Whissel, Kristen, 1969-
Contributor:
ebrary, Inc.
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.
Silent films--United States--History and criticism.
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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