Spectacular Realities Early Mass Culture in Fin-De-Siï¿½cle Paris

Name: Spectacular Realities Early Mass Culture in Fin-De-Siï¿½cle Paris
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ISBN: 9780520221680

ISBN-10: 0520221680

ISBN-13: 9780520221680

Edition: 1998

Authors: Vanessa R. Schwartz

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During the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris emerged as the entertainment capital of the world. The sparkling redesigned city fostered a culture of energetic crowd-pleasing and multi-sensory amusements that would apprehend and represent real life as spectacle. Vanessa R. Schwartz examines the explosive popularity of such phenomena as the boulevards, the mass press, public displays of corpses at the morgue, wax museums, panoramas, and early film. Drawing on a wide range of written and visual materials, including private and business archives, and working at the intersections of art history, literature, and cinema studies, Schwartz argues that "spectacular realities" are part of…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/3/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English