Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. This volume shows us the

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of Africa

Both professors at the U. of Edinburgh (Scotland), Orr (sociology) and Taxidou (English) have collected a diverse selection of previously published material on

"In A Modernist Cinema, edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the

This book confronts theoretical models on cinema as both a product and a catalyst of European modernity with new empirical work on the history of the social exp