Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
May Irwin’s Kiss
May Irwin’s Kiss: The Beginnings of Cinema and the Transformation of American Culture with Charles Musser, co-chair of the Film Studies Program and professor of American Studies, Film Studies and Theater Studies at Yale.
