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Author Orr, John, 1943-

Title Cinema and modernity / John Orr
Published Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1993

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 MELB  791.4301 Orr/Cam  AVAILABLE
Description ix, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Film and the Paradox of the Modern -- 2. Tragicomedy and the Cool Apocalypse -- 3. The Double and the Innocent -- 4. The Power of the Gaze -- 5. The Absent Image and the Unreal Object -- 6. Commodified Demons I: The Machine and the Mask -- 7. Commodified Demons II: The Automobile -- 8. The Strange Passions of Film Noir
Analysis Cinema Films (Motion pictures)
United States
Western Europe
Cinema Films (Motion pictures)
United States
Western Europe
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [195]-201
Filmography: pages [202]-218
Subject Motion pictures and the arts.
Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
Motion pictures -- History.
LC no. 93036026
ISBN 0745606318 (alk. paper)
0745611869 (paperback: alk. paper)