Parallel tracks : the railroad and silent cinema / / Lynne Kirby [[electronic resource]]
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Kirby Lynne
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| Titolo: |
Parallel tracks : the railroad and silent cinema / / Lynne Kirby [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (ix, 338 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/656 |
| Soggetto topico: | Railroads in motion pictures |
| Silent films | |
| Silent films - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-320) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. | |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Parallel Tracks |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Parallel tracks |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-1839-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248189403316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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