03106pam 2200601 a 450 99624818940331620230828202001.00-8223-1839-32027/heb08254(CKB)3400000000085038(MH)006965996-6(SSID)ssj0000682011(PQKBManifestationID)12322151(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000682011(PQKBWorkID)10678151(PQKB)11065644(dli)HEB08254(MiU)MIU01000000000000011434151(EXLCZ)99340000000008503819960607d1997 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrParallel tracks the railroad and silent cinema /Lynne Kirby[electronic resource]Durham Duke University Pressc19971 online resource (ix, 338 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-320) and index.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.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.Parallel TracksRailroads in motion picturesSilent filmsSilent filmsHistory and criticismRailroads in motion picturesSilent filmsRailroads in motion pictures.Silent films.Silent filmsHistory and criticism.Railroads in motion picturesSilent films791.43/656Kirby Lynne777343DLCDLCDLCBOOK996248189403316Parallel tracks1683647UNISA