Leo Charney is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Iowa
Schwartz, Vanessa R. : University of Washington, D.C.
Vanessa R. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of History at The American University in Washington, D.C.
Summary
Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the
essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity.
Contributors, leading scholars in film and cultural studies, link the popularity of cinema in the late nineteenth
century to emerging cultural phenomena such as window shopping, mail-order catalogs, and wax museums.
