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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema Book

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.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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...

  • 0822342014
  • 9780822342014
  • Kristen Whissel
  • 12 December 2008
  • Duke University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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