LEADER 03106pam 2200601 a 450 001 996248189403316 005 20230828202001.0 010 $a0-8223-1839-3 024 7 $a2027/heb08254 035 $a(CKB)3400000000085038 035 $a(MH)006965996-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000682011 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12322151 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000682011 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10678151 035 $a(PQKB)11065644 035 $a(dli)HEB08254 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011434151 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000085038 100 $a19960607d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aParallel tracks $ethe railroad and silent cinema /$fLynne Kirby$b[electronic resource] 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 338 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-320) and index. 327 $g1.$tInventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema --$g2.$tRomances of the Rail in Silent Film --$g3.$tThe Railroad in the City --$g4.$tNational Identity in the Train Film. 330 $aFrom 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. 330 8 $aIn 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. 517 1 $aParallel Tracks 606 $aRailroads in motion pictures 606 $aSilent films 606 $aSilent films$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRailroads in motion pictures 606 $aSilent films 615 0$aRailroads in motion pictures. 615 0$aSilent films. 615 0$aSilent films$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRailroads in motion pictures 615 0$aSilent films 676 $a791.43/656 700 $aKirby$b Lynne$0777343 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248189403316 996 $aParallel tracks$91683647 997 $aUNISA