Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life

Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life PDF Author: Leo Charney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520916425
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Book Description
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.