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Whissel Picturing American Modernity
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Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten
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ISBN: 978-0-8223-9145-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Early Cinema Encounters Empire: War Actualities, American Modernity, and Military Masculinity 21
2. Placing Audiences on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century 63
3. Electric Modernity and the Cinema at the Pan-American Exposition: The City of Living Light 117
4. Regulating Mobility: Traffic, Technology, and Feature-Length Narrativity 161
Conclusion 215
Notes 233
Bibliography 253
Index 263