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City of cinema, Paris 1850-1907, edited by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-186)Filmography: pages 182-183

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City of cinema

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edited by Leah Lehmbeck, Britt Salvesen, and Vanessa R. Schwartz

Paris 1850-1907

City of Cinema traces film's evolution from obscure entertainment to significant art form of the 20th century. Placing cinema in the context of 19th-century Parisian visual culture, this book brings together posters, paintings, studio and documentary photography, and film stills that evoke Paris as a site of consumption, demonstrate early cinema's relationship with technology and the fine arts, and highlight local and global spaces of film production. It also examines the aspects of 19th-century visual culture that gave rise to cinema as a modern medium with an eager audience. Aligning with French beliefs that the nation's culture would be democratized through consumption, cinema reinforced a set of assumptions about French cultural and political authority and disseminated these ideas to the rest of the world