Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these techno

A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.

This reader collects primary documents on the phonograph, cinema, and radio before WWII to show how Americans slowly came to grips with the idea of recorded and

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