Spectacular Realities - Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris (Paperback, Revised ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1999
First published:	August 1999
Authors:	Vanessa R. Schwartz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	244
Edition:	Revised ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-22168-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-520-22168-0
Barcode:	9780520221680

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