Title: Matters of gravity
First published: 2003
Description: This is a collection of accessible and wide-ranging essays on cinema, the body and the experience of modernity. The text reveals how popular culture tames the threats posed by technology and urban modernity by immersing people in delirious, kinetic environments.
Subjects: Body, Human, Civilization, History, Human Body, Mass media, Metamorphosis, Motion pictures, Popular culture, Social aspects, Social aspects of Mass media, Social aspects of Metamorphosis, Social aspects of Motion pictures, Social aspects of Technology, Social aspects of the Human body, Technology, Culture in motion pictures, Popular culture, united states, Human body, social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E169.1 .B933 2003