It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Picturing American Modernity by Kristen Whissel
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In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibilities and perils of new forms of “traffic” produced by industrialization and urbanization. As more efficient ways to move people, goods, and information transformed work and leisure at home and contributed to the expansion of the U.S. empire abroad, silent films presented compelling visual...
Picturing American Modernity by Kristen Whissel is 286 pages long, and a total of 73,216 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Picturing American Modernity aloud.
Picturing American Modernity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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