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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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.