Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization.
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Study of the relationship between modernity and cinema, with an emphasis on how early-20th-century films represented technology and urbanization.
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Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $10.63, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press Books.
Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $10.64, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press Books.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $10.65, fair condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press Books.
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Fair. Acceptable-This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, & to cart. $14.00, like new condition, Sold by Powell's Books Chicago rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press.
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Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $16.95, very good condition, Sold by Mahler Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pflugerville, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press Books.
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Very Good. 0822342014. This book is in very good condition; no remainder marks. It does have some cover shelfwear. Inside pages are clean.; 9.10 X 5.70 X 0.60 inches; 288 pages.
Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $17.50, very good condition, Sold by BookHouse On-Line rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Minneapolis, MN, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press.
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Very Good+ Tight and clean. NOT ex-library. Exterior looks great, spine is uncreased. An all-around excellent copy. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $96.95, very good condition, Sold by Earthlight Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Walla Walla, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press Books.
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Very Good. Size: 6x0x9; Fine. No dust jacket. like new! appears unread, might be light wear to exterior, pencil notation to FFEP, Support Independent Pacific Northwest Booksellers! Glued binding. Paper over boards. 272 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 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 World War I, moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibilities and perils of new forms of 'traffic' produced by industrialization and urbanization. As more efficient ways to move people, goods, and information transformed work and leisure at home and contributed to the expansion of the U.S. empire abroad, silent films presented compelling visual representations of the spaces, bodies, machines, and forms of mobility that increasingly defined modern life in the United States and its new territories. Whissel shows that by portraying key events, achievements, and anxieties, the cinema invited American audiences to participate in the rapidly changing world around them. Moving pictures provided astonishing visual dispatches from military camps prior to the outbreak of fighting in the Spanish-American War, and it allowed audiences to delight in images of the Pan-American Exposition and mourn the assassination of President McKinley there. One early film genre, the re-enactment, presented spectators with renditions of bloody battles fought overseas during the Philippine-American War. In turn, early features offered sensational dramatizations of the scandalous 'white slave trade, ' which was often linked to immigration and new forms of urban work and leisure. By bringing these frequently distant events and anxieties 'near' to audiences in cities and towns across the country, the cinema helped construct an American national identity for the machine age.
Add this copy of Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and to cart. $98.36, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Duke University Press Books.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
