Cinema and the invention of modern life
By: edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz.
Contributors: Charney, Leo.; Schwartz, Vanessa R.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tracing the individual body : photography, detectives, and early cinema / Tom Gunning; title: Unbinding vision : Manet and the attentive observer in the late nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary; title: Modernity, hyperstimulus, and the rise of popular sensationalism / Ben Singer; title: The poster in fin-de-siècle Paris : "that mobile and degenerate art" / Marcus Verhagen; title: "A new era of shopping" : the promotion of women's pleasure in London's West End, 1909-1914 / Erika D. Rappaport; title: Disseminations of modernity : representation and consumer desire in early mail-order catalogs / Alexandra Keller; title: The perils of Pathé, or the Americanization of the American cinema / Richard Abel; title: Panoramic literature and the invention of everyday genres / Margaret Cohen; title: Moving pictures : photography, narrative, and the Paris Commune of 1871 / Jeannene M. Przyblyski; title: In a moment : film and the philosophy of modernity / Leo Charney; title: Cinematic spectatorship before the apparatus : the public taste for reality in fin-de-siècle Paris / Vanessa R. Schwartz; title: Effigy and narrative : looking into the nineteenth-century folk museum / Mark B. Sandberg; title: America, Paris, the Alps : Kracauer (and Benjamin) on cinema and modernity / Miriam Bratu Hansen.