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Spectacular realities :

(Number (ISBN

0520924207

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0585181640

(Number (ISBN

9780520924208

(Number (ISBN

9780585181646

Erroneous ISBN

0520209591

Erroneous ISBN

0520221680

Erroneous ISBN

9780520209596

Erroneous ISBN

9780520221680

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b750367

Title Proper

Spectacular realities :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris /

First Statement of Responsibility

Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1998.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, map

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Setting the stage: the boulevard, the press and the framing of everyday life -- Public visits to the morgue: Flânerie in the service of the state -- The Musée Grévin: museum and newspaper in one -- Representing reality and the o-rama craze -- From Journal Plastique to Journal Lumineux: early cinema and spectacular reality -- Conclusion.

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"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.

Title

Spectacular realities.

International Standard Book Number

0520221680

Musée Grévin (Paris)

Leisure industry-- France-- Paris.

Popular culture-- France-- Paris-- History-- 19th century.

Spectacular, The-- Government policy-- France-- Paris.

Culture populaire-- France-- Paris-- Histoire-- 19e siècle.

Loisirs-- Industrie-- France-- Paris.

Spectaculaire-- Politique gouvernementale-- France-- Paris.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

Cinéma-- 1895-1929-- France-- Paris (France)

Civilization.

Culture de masse-- France-- Paris (France)

Culture populaire-- France-- Paris (France)-- 19e siècle.

Faits divers-- Sociologie.

Fin de siècle.

HISTORY.

Leisure industry.

Loisirs-- Industrie-- France-- Paris (France)

Massenkultur

Populaire cultuur.

Popular culture.

Spectaculaire.

Spectacular, The-- Government policy.

Stadscultuur.

France, Civilization, 19th century.

France, Civilisation, 19e siècle.

France, Paris.

France.

Paris.

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BIO-- 006000

HIS-- 013000

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Edition

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Book number

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Schwartz, Vanessa R.

Date of Transaction

20201204100642.0

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[Book]

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