Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz

Author: Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz
eBook Title: Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life
ISBN10: 0520201124
ISBN13: 978-0520201125
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press (January 31, 1996)
Category: Humor & Entertainment
Subcategory: Movies
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Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity. Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums.