![]() ![]() She has described the book as an investigation into “how early American cinema represented major changes taking place in American society, politics and culture in the early 20th century, particularly changes that were related to the spread of new technologies.”3 Whissel and many of her contemporaries began to explore how the cinema mediated the pleasures and perils of modern life for its audiences.2 Whissel found clear and legible evidence that linked legacy to newer media forms of storytelling in silent cinema, which resulted in her first book, Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema (2008). That early work coincided with her scholarly coming of age at the moment in which Tom Gunning’s theory of a cinema of attractions-arguing that narrative was secondary to early cinema’s drive to show the audience something-was at its peak.1ĭownload the Page Views selection from this book ![]() Porter were informed by her extensive archival research. Her first analyses of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, the Spanish-American War, and the films of Edwin S. She has been deepening her theories of spectacular narrativity since she began publishing on the subject of early cinema and the American experience of technological modernity. Kristen Whissel’s latest book, Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema, examines the relationship between narrative and spectacle in contemporary blockbuster cinema. From Film Quarterly Fall 2014, Volume 68, Number 1 ![]()
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