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Autore |
Kirby Lynne |
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Titolo |
Parallel tracks : the railroad and silent cinema / / Lynne Kirby [[electronic resource]] |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, c1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 338 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Railroads in motion pictures |
Silent films |
Silent films - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-320) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema -- ; 2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film -- ; 3. The Railroad in the City -- ; 4. National Identity in the Train Film. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 theoretical and historical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history. Describing the train as a mechanical double for the cinema, Lynne Kirby gives her romantic topic a compelling twist. She views the railroad/cinema romance in light of the technological and cultural instability underlying modernity and presents the railroad and cinema as complementary experiences that shaped the modern world and its subjects - the passengers and spectators who traveled through that world. |
In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films - icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed - Kirby examines how trains and rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture. |
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