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Author Whissel, Kristen, 1969-

Title Picturing American modernity [electronic resource] : traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / Kristen Whissel.

Imprint Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 272 p. : ill.
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Technology in motion pictures.
Transportation in motion pictures.
War films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Silent films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822391456
0822391457
9780822341857 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822341859 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822342014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822342014 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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