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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Schwartz, Vanessa R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.