... to examine their reconfiguration in cinema from the late nineteenth century onwards. It discusses epistemic objects in flux and mobile observers, circulations (commodities, arcades, flâneurs and regulation), popular technologies of vision (museums, exhibitions and panoramas...

...This chapter establishes that scholarly approaches to flâneurs have downplayed the broader impact of the urban experience on the senses and underappreciated their aural acuity. From the type's early formulations by Honoré de Balzac, Auguste de Lacroix, and Victor Fournel, the flâneur is attuned...