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Vanessa R. Schwartz
Drawing on a range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, this title argues that…
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Vanessa R Schwartz
A stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine
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Explores the affinity between the French and American film industries, breaking down myths of American imperialism and French cultural protectionism. This book illuminates the vital role that cinema has played…
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theatre, and the novel, the essays in this volume reasses the relationship between the emergence of film and…
Jason E. Hill,Vanessa R. Schwartz
Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis…
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Exploring photographs, exhibitions and advertising, this text suggests that modernity rather than modernism is a valuable way of understanding the changes particular to the visual culture of the time.
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How film emerged in 19th-century Paris amid an array of social, political, artistic and technological innovations–with works by the Lumiere brothers, Melies, Cheret and more
City of Cinema traces film’s…
