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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris".
- catalog contributor b10423227.
- catalog coverage "France Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-221) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction --- 1. Setting the stage: the boulevard, the press and the framing of everyday life --- 2. Public visits to the morgue: Flânerie in the service of the state --- 3. The Musée Grévin: museum and newspaper in one --- 4. Representing reality and the o-rama craze --- 5. From Journal Plastique to Journal Lumineux: early cinema and spectacular reality ---- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 230 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520209591 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "France Civilization 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "France Paris".
- catalog spatial "France Paris.".
- catalog subject "944.06 21".
- catalog subject "DC715 .S39 1998".
- catalog subject "Leisure industry France Paris.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture France Paris History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Spectacular, The Government policy France Paris.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction --- 1. Setting the stage: the boulevard, the press and the framing of everyday life --- 2. Public visits to the morgue: Flânerie in the service of the state --- 3. The Musée Grévin: museum and newspaper in one --- 4. Representing reality and the o-rama craze --- 5. From Journal Plastique to Journal Lumineux: early cinema and spectacular reality ---- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris".
- catalog title "Spectacular realities : early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris / Vanessa R. Schwartz.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".