Feeling modern the eccentricities of public life

This study combines theories of public sphere, cinema, visual culture and affect. While modernist feeling is often described either as a reservoir of romantic inwardness or as an inhuman hostility to sentiment, Nieland argues that modernists championed feelings as primarily public, rather than as pr...

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1. Verfasser: Nieland, Justus (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Urbana u.a. Univ. of Illinois Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung:This study combines theories of public sphere, cinema, visual culture and affect. While modernist feeling is often described either as a reservoir of romantic inwardness or as an inhuman hostility to sentiment, Nieland argues that modernists championed feelings as primarily public, rather than as private property of the self.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-301) and index
Introduction: Eccentric feeling -- Tough crowds -- Eccentric types -- Kumraderie -- Light figures -- Tenderness -- Dead pan -- The passion to be a person -- Epilogue: Charlie Chaplin and the revenge of the eccentric
Beschreibung:xv, 313 S.
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ISBN:9780252033377
978-0-252-03337-7
9780252075469
978-0-252-07546-9