Spectacular realities : early mass culture in fin-de-si�ecle Paris /
Vanessa R. Schwartz.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1998.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.
Introduction -- Setting the stage: the boulevard, the press and the framing of everyday life -- Public visits to the morgue: Fl�anerie in the service of the state -- The Mus�ee Gr�evin: museum and newspaper in one -- Representing reality and the o-rama craze -- From Journal Plastique to Journal Lumineux: early cinema and spectacular reality -- Conclusion.
"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."--Publisher description.
9780520924208 0520924207 0585181640 9780585181646
Mus�ee Gr�evin (Paris)
1800-1899
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