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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Andriopoulos, Stefan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Series:Cinema and modernity.
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