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Menus for movieland : newspapers and the emergence of American film culture, 1913-1916
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ISBN: 9780520286771 0520286774 9780520286788 0520286782 9780520961883 0520961889 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. University of California Press

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"At the turn of the last century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer 'menus' by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their own daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film culture. Negotiating among national, regional, and local interests, it shaped fans' ephemeral experience of moviegoing, their repeated encounters with the fantasy worlds of 'movie land,' and their attractions to certain stories and stars. Moreover, in weekend pages and daily columns and film reviews, much of this was served up by women and consumed by women, including at least one teenager compiling a rare surviving scrapbook"-- Provided by publisher.


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Technology and the search for progress in modern Mexico
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ISBN: 9780520960558 0520960556 9781336029750 1336029757 0520284909 0520284895 9780520284890 9780520284906 9780520284906 9780520284890 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. University of California Press

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In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation. Drawing on three detailed case studies-the sewing machine, a glass bottle-blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining-Edward Beatty explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico: while Mexicans made significant efforts to integrate new machines and products, difficulties in assimilating the skills required to use emerging technologies resulted in a persistent dependence on international expertise.

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