Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema by Kristen Whissel

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

Kristen Whissel

288 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

informative medium-paced

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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 pictu...

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