Fascination : trance, enchantment, & American modernity /
"Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass culture. Patrick Kindig's Fas...
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| Taal: | Engels |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2023]
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| Online toegang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3270482 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Introduction: The Fascination of Modern Life
- From Mesmerism to Mind Cure: A History of American Fascination
- Amuletic Aesthetics and the Fascination of Decadent Style
- Gesture, the Actress, and Naturalist Fiction
- Primitive Flatness and Early Ethnographic Cinema
- Conclusion: From Modern Fascination to Modernist Fascination.