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other hand, the movie phase of photography created a new
aristocracy of actors and actresses, who dramatized, on and
off the screen, the fantasia of conspicuous consumption that
the rich could never achieve. The movie demonstrated the
magic power of the photo by providing a consumer package of
plutocratic dimension for all the Cinderellas in the world.
The Gutenberg Galaxy provides the necessary background
for studying the rapid rise of new visual values after the advent
of printing from movable types. “A place for everything and
everything in its place” is a feature not only of the compositor’s
arrangement of his type fonts, but of the entire range of
human organization of knowledge and action from the
sixteenth century onward. Even the inner life of the feelings and
emotions began to be structured and ordered and analyzed
according to separate pictorial landscapes, as Christopher