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Spectacular realities : early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris /

"During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real life as spectacle. Vanessa R. Schwartz ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwartz, Vanessa R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Setting the stage: the boulevard, the press and the framing of everyday life
  • Public visits to the morgue: Flânerie in the service of the state
  • The Musée Grévin: museum and newspaper in one
  • Representing reality and the o-rama craze
  • From Journal Plastique to Journal Lumineux: early cinema and spectacular reality
  • Conclusion.