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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
Kristen Whissel
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Description for Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
Paperback. Investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. This book demonstrates how, between the late 1890s and the eve of World War I, moving pictures helped the US public understand the possibilities and perils of forms of "traffic" produced by industrialization and urbanization. Num Pages: 288 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibilities and perils of new forms of “traffic” produced by industrialization and urbanization. As more efficient ways to move people, goods, and information transformed work and leisure at home and contributed to the expansion of the U.S. empire abroad, silent films presented compelling visual representations of the spaces, bodies, machines, and forms of mobility that increasingly defined modern ... Read more
In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibilities and perils of new forms of “traffic” produced by industrialization and urbanization. As more efficient ways to move people, goods, and information transformed work and leisure at home and contributed to the expansion of the U.S. empire abroad, silent films presented compelling visual representations of the spaces, bodies, machines, and forms of mobility that increasingly defined modern ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822342014
SKU
V9780822342014
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About Kristen Whissel
Kristen Whissel is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
“Picturing American Modernity is a noteworthy contribution to the ongoing historiographic reworking of early cinema history. It is based on excellent archival work, which leads to new conclusions about the complex forces that shaped the cinema in its first two decades.”—Anne Friedberg, author of The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft “In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel thinks through the ... Read more