Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema - Kristen Whissel - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822341857 - October 3, 2008
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Kristen Whissel
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema

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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 new forms of "traffic" produced by industrialization and urbanization.

288 pages, 41 illustrations

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Released October 3, 2008
ISBN13 9780822341857
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 156 × 235 × 20 mm   ·   544 g
Language English  

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