Parallel Tracks

The Railroad and Silent Cinema

Lynne Kirby (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

1997
University of Exeter Press (Verlag)
978-0-85989-528-6 (ISBN)

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From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception, and the promise of a journey. PARALLEL TRACKS is the first book to explore and explain this relationship in both historical and theoretical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history.

This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture. It will be eagerly received by those involved in film studies, American studies, feminist theory and the cultural study of modernity. It will also have appeal to general readers interested in silent films or in the history of the railroad.

Lynne Kirby is a Senior Producer at Court Television Network. Her articles on the railroad and cinema have appeared in major American film journals.

Contents: Inventors and hysterics - the train in the pre-history and early history of cinema; romances of the rail in silent film; the railroad in the city; national identity in the train film.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1997
Reihe/Serie	Exeter Studies in Film History
Verlagsort	Exeter
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-85989-528-9 / 0859895289
ISBN-13	978-0-85989-528-6 / 9780859895286
Zustand	Neuware