Cinema and modernity

Dark utopia. "The shock of the new" : electrification, illumination, urbanization, and the cinema / Lucy Fischer -- The endless embrace of hell : hopelessness and betrayal in film noir / Wheeler Winston Dixon -- Mass murder, modernity, and the alienated gaze / Steven Alan Carr -- Modernity and the crisis in truth : Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang / Walter Metz -- Capital advances. Performing modernity and gender in the 1930s / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster -- The capital shape of science fiction heroes to come / Rebecca Bell-Metereau -- False criticism : cinema, bourgeois society, and the conservative complaint / Christopher Sharrett -- Strange personality. Miles Davis and the soundtrack of modernity / Krin Gabbard -- Experiment in terror : dystopian modernism, the police procedural, and the space of anxiety / William Luhr and Peter Lehman -- Fuller, Foucault, and forgetting : the eye of power in Shock corridor / David Sterritt -- Nothing sacred : modernity and performance in Catch me if you can / Murray Pomerance -- On the move. Legacies of Weimar cinema / Patrice Petro -- Getting lost on the waterways of L'Atalante / Tom Conley -- Fast talk : Preston Sturges and the speed of language / Joe McElhaney -- Modern thoughts. Modernity and cinema : a culture of shocks and flows / Tom Gunning -- Film, modernity, Cavell / William Rothman