Cinema and Modernity (None)

Contributor(s): Pomerance, Murray (Editor), Petro, Patrice (Contribution by), Pomerance, Murray (Contribution by), Pomerance, Murray (Introduction by), Gabbard, Krin (Contribution by), Dixon, Wheeler Winston (Contribution by), Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (Contribution by), Bell-Metereau, Rebecca (Contribution by), Carr, Steven Alan (Contribution by), McElhaney, Joe (Contribution by), Rothman, William (Contribution by), Conley, Tom (Contribution by), Sterritt, David (Contribution by), Gunning, Tom (Contribution by), Metz, Walter (Contribution by), Sharrrett, Christopher (Contribution by), Fischer, Lucy (Contribution by), Lehman, Peter (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9780813538167

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Pub Date: June 1, 2006

Dewey: 791.4301

LCCN: 2005020076

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.85" H x 9.18" L x 6.70" W ( 1.18 lbs) 384 pages

BISAC Categories:

Performing Arts | Film | History and Criticism

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Description:

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, and Experiment in Terror.

Review Quotes: I can think of no topic more central to Film Studies than 'Cinema and Modernity.' Facet after facet of both terms gleam when rotated in the intermittent light of this fascinating anthology.--Dudley Andrew "Professor of Film Studies and Comparative Literature, Yale University"