Spectacular realities
Subtitle: early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris
By: Vanessa R. Schwartz.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Popular culture -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century; Leisure industry -- France -- Paris; Spectacular, The -- Government policy -- France -- Paris; France -- Civilization -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage: the boulevard, the press and the framing of everyday life; title: Public visits to the morgue: flânerie in the service of the state; title: The Musée Grévin: museum and newspaper in one; title: Representing reality and the o-rama craze; title: From Journal plastique to Journal lumineux: early cinema and spectacular reality.