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Cinema and the invention of modern life / edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c1995.Description: vii, 409p : ill, ports ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0520201116
  • 0520201124
  • 9780520201125
  • 9780520201118
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2343
Contents:
[PART 1 Bodies and sensation] Tracing the individual body: photography, detectives and early cinema / Tom Gunning -- Unbinding vision: Manet and the attentive observer in the late nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary -- Modernity, hyperstimulus and the rise of popular sensationalism / Ben Singer.
[PART 2 Circulation and consumer desire] The poster in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: "That mobile and degenerate art" / Marcus Verhagen -- "A new era of shopping": the promotion of women's pleasure in London's west end, 1909-1914 / Erika D. Rappaport -- Disseminations of modernity: representation and consumer desire in the early mail-order catalogs / Alexandra Keller -- The perils of pathé, or the Americanization of the American cinema / Richard Abel.
[PART 3 Ephemerality and the moment] Panoramic literature and the invention of everyday genres / Margaret Cohen -- Moving pictures: photography, narrative and the Paris commune of 1871 / Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- In a moment: film and the philosophy of modernity / Leo Charney.
[PART 4 Spectacles and spectators] Cinematic spectatorship before the apparatus: the public taste for reality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Effigy and narrative: looking into the nineteenth-century filk museum / Mark B. Sandberg -- America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on cinema and modernity / Miriam Bratu Hansen.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 302.2343 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 62387
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 302.2343 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 45500

CW027

CW124

CW027

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1 Bodies and sensation] Tracing the individual body: photography, detectives and early cinema / Tom Gunning -- Unbinding vision: Manet and the attentive observer in the late nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary -- Modernity, hyperstimulus and the rise of popular sensationalism / Ben Singer.

[PART 2 Circulation and consumer desire] The poster in Fin-de-Siècle Paris: "That mobile and degenerate art" / Marcus Verhagen -- "A new era of shopping": the promotion of women's pleasure in London's west end, 1909-1914 / Erika D. Rappaport -- Disseminations of modernity: representation and consumer desire in the early mail-order catalogs / Alexandra Keller -- The perils of pathé, or the Americanization of the American cinema / Richard Abel.

[PART 3 Ephemerality and the moment] Panoramic literature and the invention of everyday genres / Margaret Cohen -- Moving pictures: photography, narrative and the Paris commune of 1871 / Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- In a moment: film and the philosophy of modernity / Leo Charney.

[PART 4 Spectacles and spectators] Cinematic spectatorship before the apparatus: the public taste for reality in Fin-de-Siècle Paris / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Effigy and narrative: looking into the nineteenth-century filk museum / Mark B. Sandberg -- America, Paris, the Alps: Kracauer (and Benjamin) on cinema and modernity / Miriam Bratu Hansen.

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