Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture In Findesiecle Paris,New Chosen Books Pub Co With Small Group Activities

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Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture In Findesiecle Paris,New Chosen Books Pub Co With Small Group ActivitiesDuring The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century, Paris Emerged As The Entertainment Capital Of The World. The Sparkling Redesigned City Fostered A Culture Of Energetic Crowdpleasing And Multisensory Amusements That Would Apprehend And Represent Real Life As Spectacle. Vanessa R. Schwartz Examines The Explosive Popularity Of Such Phenomena As The Boulevards, The Mass Press, Public Displays Of Corpses At The Morgue, Wax Museums, Panoramas, And Early