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Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema Kristen Whissel
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
Kristen Whissel
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.
288 pages, 41 illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 3, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780822342014 |
| Publishers | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 18 mm · 443 g |
| Language | English |
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