Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema by Stefan Andriopoulos

Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema

Stefan Andriopoulos with Peter Jansen (Translator), Stefan Andriopoulos (Translator)

208 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence o...

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