Expertise
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the history of modern visual culture
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European intellectual and cultural history
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film and entertainment history
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20th century French and American film
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the Cannes Film Festival
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urban history, especially Parisian history
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French museums, including wax museums and the Louvre
Additional Information
- Author of Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris(1998)
- Co-editor of Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (1995) and The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader(2003)
- Editor, Film and Media Column, Perspectives
