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Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-De-Siècle Paris

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Availability:In StockContributor:Vanessa R. SchwartzPublish date:1999-08-03Pages:244
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520221680ISBN-10:520221680UPC:9780520221680Book Category:History, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Popular CultureBook Topic:FranceSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCTP449J3M
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 the foundation of modern mass society. She refutes the notion that modern life produced an unending parade of distractions leading to alienation, and instead suggests that crowds gathered not as dislocated spectators but as members of a new kind of crowd, one united in pleasure rather than protest.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520221680ISBN-10:520221680UPC:9780520221680Book Category:History, Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Popular CultureBook Topic:FranceSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCTP449J3M
Vanessa R. Schwartz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California and coeditor of Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (California, 1995).
Publisher: University of California Press

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