Author Archive for: ‘Stephanie Hanson’
“Electrical wonders of the present age”: cinema-going on the Far South Coast of NSW and rural discourses of modernity
The rise of cinema around the turn of the 20th century as a popular cultural activity is commonly linked to the emerging modern lifestyle of city residents – a product of urbanisation, industrialisation, mass production, mass consumption and the consequent growing affluence of the general populace. This connection was made by commentators of the period[1] and continues to be used …
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