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Modernity, Parallel Editing, And The Flâneuse: Examining The White Slave Narrative In Early And Contemporary American Cinema, Alex W. Bordino
Modernity, Parallel Editing, And The Flâneuse: Examining The White Slave Narrative In Early And Contemporary American Cinema, Alex W. Bordino
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This thesis explores cinema and the conceptual presence of Charles Baudelaire's nineteenth century flâneur; in particular, it examines how this modernist notion relates to cinematic technique and issues associated with female spectatorship through an analysis of the white slave genre in both early and contemporary American cinema. Seven early films are examined: How They Do Things on the Bowery (Porter, 1903), The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled (McCutcheon, 1908), The Fatal Hour (Griffith, 1908), The Miser's Heart (Griffith, 1911), The Muskateers of Pig Alley (Griffith, 1911), The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (Beal, 1913), and Traffic in Souls …