Turning The Century

Analyses of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century media and cultural processes, including advertising, film, sound recording, magazines, newspapers, and the rise of think tanks.

Carol Stabile

* List of Figures * Acknowledgments * Introduction, Carol A. Stabile * Sound out of Time: Modernitys Echo, Jonathan Sterne * Maintaining the Order of Things: Class, the Gospel of Scientific Efficiency, and the Invention of Policy Expertise in America, 18651921, Amos Tevelow * Sensationalism, Objectivity, and Reform in Turn-of-the-Century America, Mark Harrison * All Love Making Scenes Must Be Normal: Pennsylvania Movie Censorship in the Progressive Era, Michael G. Aronson * Only Flossy, High-Society Dudes Would Smoke Em: Gender and Cigarette Advertising in the Nineteenth Century, Dawn Schmitz * Trotting Horses and Moving Pictures: A Sporting View of Early Cinema, Andrew C. Miller * Girls Who Come to Pieces: Women, Cosmetics, and Advertising in the Ladies Home Journal, 191920, Lisa Belicka Kernen * Race Betterment and Class Consciousness at the Turn of the Century, or Why Its Okay to Marry Your Cousin, Kelly Happe * Conspicuous Whiteness: The New Woman, the Old Negro, and the Vanishing Past of Early Brand Advertising, Carla Willard * Constructions of Violence: Labor, Capital, and Hegemonic Struggle in the Pullman Strike of 1894, Kevin Ayotte * Afterword, Richard Ohmann * About the Editor and Contributors * Index