Cinema and ModernityThe modern impulse gave us captivating technology and dark anxiety, rampant mobility and a world filled with strangers, the futuristic city and a fragmentation of experience. Motion pictures the quintessence of modernism entered into this cultural, technical, and philosophical richness with a vast public appeal and a jarring new vision of what life could be. In Cinema and Modernity, Murray Pomerance brings together new essays by seventeen leading