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Cinema and modernity

Murray Pomerance c2006 © Rutgers University Press
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  • 9780813538150 (hardcover)
  • 9780813538167 (paper)
Subject
  • Film & Media Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (MURRAY POMERANCE, page 3)
  • Dark Utopia
    • "The Shock of the New": Electrification, Illumination, Urbanization, and the Cinema (LUCY FISCHER, page 19)
    • The Endless Embrace of Hell: Hopelessness and Betrayal in Film Noir (WHEELER WINSTON DIXON, page 38)
    • Mass Murder, Modernity, and the Alienated Gaze (STEVEN ALAN CARR, page 57)
    • Modernity and the Crisis in Truth: Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang (WALTER METZ, page 74)
  • Capital Advances
    • Performing Modernity and Gender in the 1930s (GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER, page 93)
    • The Capital Shape of Science Fiction Heroes to Come (REBECCA BELL-METEREAU, page 110)
    • False Criticism: Cinema, Bourgeois Society, and the Conservative Complaint (CHRISTOPHER SHARRETT, page 130)
  • Strange Personality
    • Miles Davis and the Soundtrack of Modernity (KRIN GABBARD, page 155)
    • Experiment in Terror: Dystopian Modernism, the Police Procedural, and the Space of Anxiety (WILLIAM LUHR AND PETER LEHMAN, page 175)
    • Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock Corridor (DAVID STERRITT, page 194)
    • Nothing Sacred: Modernity and Performance in Catch Me If You Can (MURRAY POMERANCE, page 211)
  • On the Move
    • Legacies of Weimar Cinema (PATRICE PETRO, page 235)
    • Getting Lost on the Waterways of L'Atalante (TOM CONLEY, page 253)
    • Fast Talk: Preston Sturges and the Speed of Language (JOE McELHANEY, page 273)
  • Modern Thoughts
    • Modernity and Cinema: A Culture of Shocks and Flows (TOM GUNNING, page 297)
    • Film, Modernity, Cavell (WILLIAM ROTHMAN, page 316)
  • Index (page 355)
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