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Standard Time, Narrative Film and American Progressive Politics

In the United States, the establishment of standard time zones in 1883 imposed an objective, socially expedient mechanical authority on what had been regarded as an unfungible aspect of nature. This new time lent itself to editing and reformation. Nearly identical approaches to the problem of time appeared in the techniques of scientific management, the evolution of motion-picture narrative and the formation of political consensus in the years before the First World War.

Key Words: history • sociology • film studies

Time & Society, Vol. 1, No. 2, 193-206 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X92001002004


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