Cinema and Modernity

Murray Pomerance

ISBN 10: 0813538165 / ISBN 13: 9780813538167

Published by Rutgers University Press Jun 2006, 2006

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Neuware - Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. This volume shows us the significant ways that film has both grown in the context of the modern world and played a central role in reflecting and shaping our interactions with it.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cinema and Modernity
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press Jun 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813538165
• ISBN 13: 9780813538167
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 170H x 22D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 170 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 535 grams

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Synopsis

The modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures––the quintessence of modernism––entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be.

In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. Among the many films considered are Detour, Shock Corridor, The Last Laugh, Experiment in Terror, The Great Dictator, Leave Her to Heaven, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Eyes Wide Shut, Sunrise, The Crowd, The Shape of Things to Come, The War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Scarlet Street, Shadow of a Doubt, Stella Dallas, The Blue Angel, Sullivan’s Travels, and Catch Me If You Can.

About the Author

MURRAY POMERANCE is a professor and chair in the sociology department at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is the coeditor of the Screen Decades series and the author of numerous books, including Johnny Depp Starts Here and An Eye for Hitchcock.