Cinema and the Invention of Modern LifeLeo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums. |
Contents
BODIES AND SENSATION | 2 |
Photography Detectives | 15 |
Manet and the Attentive Observer in | 46 |
That Mobile and Degenerate Art | 103 |
Panoramic Literature and the Invention of Everyday Genres | 227 |
The Public Taste | 297 |
Looking into the NineteenthCentury | 320 |
Kracauer and Benjamin | 362 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 403 |
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