"The effectively illustrated book contains exceptionally interesting essays. . . . As an interdisciplinary academic work, this will be of interest to students and scholars in film studies, art, and cultural history."—Library Journal

"Reassesses the relationship between the emergence of film and cinema and the broader culture of modernity. Cinema and modernity are presented as points of reflection and convergence. The thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in film and cultural studies, generate from the premise that cinema, as it developed in the late nineteenth century, became the fullest expression and combination of modernity's attributes."—Cab Abstracts