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Cinema and the invention of modern life [electronic resource] /

Cinema and the invention of modern life [electronic resource] / edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995. - vii, 409 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tracing the individual body : photography, detectives, and early cin ema / Tom Gunning -- Unbinding vision : Manet and the attentive observe r in the late nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary -- Modernity, hyperst imulus, and the rise of popular sensationalism / Ben Singer -- The post er in fin-de-siècle Paris : "that mobile and degenerate art" / Marcus Verhagen -- "A new era of shopping" : the promotion of women's pleasure in London's West End, 1909-1914 / Erika D. Rappaport -- Disseminations of modernity : representation and consumer desire in early mail-order catalogs / Alexandra Keller -- The perils of Pathé, or the Americaniza tion of the American cinema / Richard Abel -- Panoramic literature and the invention of everyday genres / Margaret Cohen -- Moving pictures : photography, narrative, and the Paris Commune of 1871 / Jeannene M. Prz yblyski -- In a moment : film and the philosophy of modernity / Leo Cha rney -- Cinematic spectatorship before the apparatus : the public taste for reality in fin-de-siècle Paris / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Effigy and narrative : looking into the nineteenth-century folk museum / Mark B. Sandberg -- America, Paris, the Alps : Kracauer (and Benjamin) on cinema and modern ity / Miriam Bratu Hansen.


Electronic text and image data.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2010.
Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text.
([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Mode of a ccess: Intranet.


Motion pictures-- Social aspects.
Popular culture-- History-- 20th century.