Voix-de-Ville: Djuna Barnes's Stunt Journalism, Harry Houdini and the Birth of Cinema

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Notes

1. Djuna Barnes, New York, Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1989: 185. All subsequent references to New York will be cited in the text as (NY).

2. Dana Brand, The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-century American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 1991: 7.

3. Steve Pile, The Body and the City, London: Routledge, 1996: 230.

4. Stanley Walker, City Editor, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1934: 251.

5. Walker, City Editor, 251.

6. Herbert Altschull, From Milton to McLuhan: The Ideas Behind American Journalism, New York: Longman, 1990: 267.

7. See Brooke Kroeger's biography, Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist, New York: Times Books, 1994.

8. Edwin Emery, The Press and America: An Interpretative History of the Mass Media, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972: 176.

9. Walker, City Editor, 254.

10. Lissa Schneider, ‘“This Mysterious and Migratory Jewelry”: Satire and the Feminine in Djuna Barnes's “The Terrorists”’, Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.3 (1993): 62–9, 62.

11. See Ruth Brandon, The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini, London: Mandarin, 1993.

12. Brian Lead and Roger Woods, Harry Houdini: Legend & Legacy, ed. B. Lead and R. Woods, Accrington: Caxton Printing, 1993: 7,9.

13. Lead and Woods, Harry Houdini, 10.

14. Adam Phillips, Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape, London: Faber and Faber, 2001: 37.

15. Phillips, Houdini's Box, 37.

16. Bonnie Kime Scott, Refiguring Modernism: The Women of 1928, vol.1, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995: 212.

17. Scott, Refiguring Modernism, 53.

18. Tim Armstrong, Modernism, Technology and the Body, Cambridge University Press, 1998: 126.

19. David Henkin, City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1998: 102.

20. Henkin, City Reading, 117.

21. Henkin, City Reading, 101.

22. Anne Friedberg, ‘Les Flâneurs Du Mal(L): Cinema and the Postmodern Condition’, PMLA 106.3 (1991): 419–31, 421.

23. Rachel Bowlby, Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping, London: Faber and Faber, 2000: 25.

24. http://members.tripod.com/sjfloats/houdini/

25. Margaret Cohen, ‘Panoramic Literature and the Invention of Everyday Genres’, in Charney and Schwartz, eds, Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995: Chapter 8.

26. Cohen, ‘Panoramic Literature’, 8.

27. Elaine S. Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989: 29, 41.

28. Kathy Pleiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-century New York, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986: 146.

29. Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, ed. Hannah Arendt, Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, London: Fontana, 1992: 211–44.

30. Gyles Daubeney Brandreth, The Magic of Houdini, London: Pelham Books, 1978: 20.

31. Phillips, Houdini's Box, 16.

32. Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art’, 223.

33. Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art’, 218.

34. Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art’, 224.