Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life

Leo Charney (editor), Vanessa R. Schwartz (editor)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN:	9780520201118
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Pub date:	08 Feb 1996
DEWEY:	302.2343
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	409
Weight:	857g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	33mm