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Possessed : hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema /
Silent cinema explored themes of mesmerism, possession and corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics were accusing film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over its audience. This book shows that this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was a per...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Cinema and modernity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Silent cinema explored themes of mesmerism, possession and corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics were accusing film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over its audience. This book shows that this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was a pervasive concern of the period. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes filmography: pages 163-170. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226020570 0226020576 1281959030 9781281959034 9786611959036 6611959033 |