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Picturing American Modernity : Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema /
In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibiliti...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The early cinema encounters empire: war actualities, American modernity, and military masculinity
- Placing audiences on the scene of history: modern warfare and the battle reenactment at the turn of the century
- Electric modernity and the cinema at the pan-American exposition: the city of living light
- Regulating mobility: traffic, technology and feature-length narrativity.