Research Catalog

Title

Cinema and the invention of modern life [electronic resource] / edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.

Details

Additional Authors

• Charney, Leo.
• Schwartz, Vanessa R.
• American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

vii, 409 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Subject

• Motion pictures > Social aspects
• Popular culture > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic text and image data.

Contents

• Tracing the individual body : photography, detectives, and early cinema / Tom Gunning -- Unbinding vision : Manet and the attentive observer in the late nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary -- Modernity, hyperstimulus, and the rise of popular sensationalism / Ben Singer -- The poster 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 Americanization 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. Przyblyski -- In a moment : film and the philosophy of modernity / Leo Charney -- 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 modernity / Miriam Bratu Hansen.

OCLC

(dli)HEB08040

Title

Cinema and the invention of modern life [electronic resource] / edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.

Series

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction

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 access: Intranet.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Charney, Leo.

Schwartz, Vanessa R.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Found In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

Other Form:

Original 9780520201125 (DLC)95010821