Brings together several essays by seventeen scholars to explore the complexity of the essential connection between film and modernity. This volume shows us the

Both professors at the U. of Edinburgh (Scotland), Orr (sociology) and Taxidou (English) have collected a diverse selection of previously published material on

The era of silent film, long seen as black and white, has been revealed in recent scholarship as bursting with color. Yet the 1920s remain thought of as a trans

This book confronts theoretical models on cinema as both a product and a catalyst of European modernity with new empirical work on the history of the social exp

Since its inception, cinema has evolved into not merely a ‘reflection’ but an indispensable index of human experience – especially our experience of time�