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

by KristenWhissel (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $16.58

  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.