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.
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This anthology, intended to illustrate how "modernity can best be understood as inherently cinematic," is more precisely described as a series of essays on late 19th- and early 20th-century U.S. and European cultural history. The effectively illustrated book contains exceptionally interesting essays on early photography and police work, the early mass media's focus on the dangers of city life, the promotion of Selfridge's department store, Pathe's intrusion into the U.S. film market, the Paris morgue, Scandinavian folk museums, Sigfried Kracauer's writings on the range of this period's culture and consumption, and more. Editors Charney and Schwartz are assistant professors of film studies and history, respectively. As an interdisciplinary academic work, this will be of interest to students and scholars in film studies, art, and cultural history. Recommended for larger academic collections.?Jane E. Sloan, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"This is one of the finest, freshest, and most suggestive anthologies I've come across in recent years."--Stuart Liebman, City University of New York Graduate Center
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This is a terrific collection of essays that together make a case that cinema is really the formal realization of deep cultural changes in everyday life of 19th century Western modernity. It is especially useful for offering different disciplinary approaches to "modern life"; there are essays on the history visual perception (Crary), modes of philosophic thought (Charney), developments in cultural criticism, and the economics of early film. But these are augmented by many studies of social and cultural history that examine specific features of everyday life, from posters and wax museums to department stores and genres of the mass press.
These essays will enlarge the domain of film scholarship. But they are also valuable for scholars of 19th century culture broadly. Miriam Hansen's essay on Kracauer and Benjamin is especially good, and it offers a careful, thoughtful analysis of theoretical questions about mass culture that resonate with the rich range of materials presented in the volume as a whole.
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New York, United States, West End, Moving Picture World, Walter Benjamin, Los Angeles, Show World, University of California Press, July Monarchy, New German Critique, Tom Gunning, Des Moines, Gordon Selfridge, New Haven, Nordiska Museet, Arcades Project, Harvard University Press, Siegfried Kracauer, University of Chicago Press, Some Motifs, Trade Notes, Yale University Press, Artwork Essay, Princeton University Press, Artur Hazelius New!
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New York, United States, West End, Moving Picture World, Walter Benjamin, Los Angeles, Show World, University of California Press, July Monarchy, New German Critique, Tom Gunning, Des Moines, Gordon Selfridge, New Haven, Nordiska Museet, Arcades Project, Harvard University Press, Siegfried Kracauer, University of Chicago Press, Some Motifs, Trade Notes, Yale University Press, Artwork Essay, Princeton University Press, Artur Hazelius New!
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