Picturing American modernity : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / / Kristen Whissel.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Physical Description:xi, 272 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Early Cinema Encounters Empire: War Actualities, American Modernity, and Military Masculinity
  • 2 Placing Audiences on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century
  • 3 Electric Modernity and the Cinema at the Pan-American Exposition: The City of Living Light
  • 4 Regulating Mobility: Traffic, Technology, and Feature-Length Narrativity.