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Possessed : hypnotic crimes, corporate fiction, and the invention of cinema
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ISBN: 1281959030 9786611959036 0226020576 9780226020570 9780226020549 0226020541 9781281959034 6611959033 Year: 2008 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was no marginal oddity, but rather a pervasive concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing this preoccupation through the period's films-as well as its legal, medical, and literary te

Poe, Fuller, and the mesmeric arts
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ISBN: 0826265006 9780826265005 0826216102 9780826216106 Year: 2006 Publisher: Columbia University of Missouri Press

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"Examines how the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Margaret Fuller draw from representations of and theories concerning animal magnetism, somnambulism, or hypnosis rendered in newspapers, literary and medical journals, pamphlets, and books, and also includes discussion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lydia Maria Child, and Walt Whitman"--Provided by publisher.

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