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Cinema and the invention of modern life
Leo. Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz
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Frontmatter
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page vii)
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INTRODUCTION (Leo Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz, page 1)
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PART I: BODIES AND SENSATION
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1. Tracing the Individual Body: Photography, Detectives, and Early Cinema (Tom Gunning, page 15)
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2. Unbinding Vision: Manet and the Attentive Observer in the Late Nineteenth Century (Jonathan Crary, page 46)
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3. Modernity, Hyperstimulus, and the Rise of Popular Sensationalism (Ben Singer, page 72)
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PART II: CIRCULATION AND CONSUMER DESIRE
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4. The Poster in Fin-de-Siécle Paris: "That Mobile and Degenerate Art" (Marcus Verhagen, page 103)
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5. "A New Era of Shopping": The Promotion of Women's Pleasure in London's West End, 1909-1914 (Erika D. Rappaport, page 130)
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6. Disseminations of Modernity: Representation and Consumer Desire in Early Mail-Order Catalogs (Alexandra Keller, page 156)
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7. The Perils of Pathé, or the Americanization of the American Cinema (Richard Abel, page 183)
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PART III: EPHEMERALITY AND THE MOMENT
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8. Panoramic Literature and the Invention of Everyday Genres (Margaret Cohen, page 227)
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9. Moving Pictures: Photography, Narrative, and the Paris Commune of 1871 (Jeannene M. Przyblyski, page 253)
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10. In a Moment: Film and the Philosophy of Modernity (Leo Charney, page 279)
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PART IV: SPECTACLES AND SPECTATORS
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11. Cinematic Spectatorship before the Apparatus: The Public Taste for Reality in Fin-de-Siécle Paris (Vanessa R. Schwartz, page 297)
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12. Effigy and Narrative: Looking into the Nineteenth-Century Folk Museum (Mark B. Sandberg, page 320)
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13. America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on Cinema and Modernity (Miriam Bratu Hansen, page 362)
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CONTRIBUTORS (page 403)
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INDEX (page 405)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TC | 40.3 (Jul. 1999): 707-709 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25147397 |
AHR | 103.3 (Jun. 1998): 855-856 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650585 |
HNET | (Jan. 1997) | http://h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=1074 |
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Published: c1995
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520201125 (paper)