Cinema and the invention of modern life / edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Charney, Leo, editor.

Schwartz, Vanessa R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Popular culture--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Culture in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520916425

0520916425

9780585114576

0585114579

OCLC:

1163878023