Cinema and the invention of modern life / edited by Leo Charney, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995], ©1995.

vii, 409 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Tracing the individual body : photography, detectives, and early cinema / Tom Gunning -- Unbinding vision : Manet and the attentive observer in the late nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary -- Modernity, hyperstimulus, and the rise of popular sensationalism / Ben Singer -- The poster in fin-de-siècle Paris : "that mobile and degenerate art" / Marcus Verhagen -- "A new era of shopping" : the promotion of women's pleasure in London's West End, 1909-1914 / Erika D. Rappaport -- Disseminations of modernity : representation and consumer desire in early mail-order catalogs / Alexandra Keller -- The perils of Pathé, or the Americanization of the American cinema / Richard Abel -- Panoramic literature and the invention of everyday genres / Margaret Cohen -- Moving pictures : photography, narrative, and the Paris Commune of 1871 / Jeannene M. Przyblyski -- In a moment : film and the philosophy of modernity / Leo Charney -- Cinematic spectatorship before the apparatus : the public taste for reality in

fin-de-siècle Paris / Vanessa R. Schwartz -- Effigy and narrative : looking into the nineteenth-century folk museum / Mark B. Sandberg -- America, Paris, the Alps : Kracauer (and Benjamin) on cinema and modernity / Miriam Bratu Hansen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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