List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Carol A. Stabile

Sound Out of Time: Modernity's Echo

Jonathan Sterne

Maintaining the Order of Things: Class, the Gospel of Scientific Efficiency, and the Invention of Policy Expertise in America, 1865-1921

Amos Tevclow

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, 1900-1920

Lisa Belicka Keranen

Race Betterment and Class Consciousness at the Turn of the Century, or Why It's 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