Possessed
Subtitle: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (Cinema and Modernity Series)
Contributors: Stefan Andriopoulos (Translator); Peter Jansen (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226020549
Subjects: Film & Video - History & Criticism; General; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book
Description: Silent cinema explored themes of mesmerism, possession and corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics were accusing film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over its audience. This book shows that this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was a pervasive concern of the period.