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 su...(展开全部)

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 su...(展开全部)

威廉·劳埃德·华纳（W. Lloyd Warner） 美国著名人类学家和社会学家，先后任教于哈佛大学、芝加哥大学和密歇根州立大学等，代表作“扬基城系列”五卷本。 保罗·桑伯恩·伦特（Paul S. Lunt） 劳埃德·华纳的合作调查人，合著“扬基城系列”第一卷、第二卷。 邵莹婷 青年译者、教师。