Picturing American modernity: traffic, technology, and the silent cinema / Kristen Whissel.

1 The Early Cinema Encounters Empire: War Actualities, American Modernity, and Military Masculinity
2 Placing Audiences on the Scene of History: Modern Warfare and the Battle Reenactment at the Turn of the Century
3 Electric Modernity and the Cinema at the Pan-American Exposition: The City of Living Light
4 Regulating Mobility: Traffic, Technology, and Feature-Length Narrativity.