This book sheds new light on the cinema and modernity debate by confronting established theories on the role of the modern cinematic experience with new empiric

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

In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She

Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understa

This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre