Parallel tracks :the railroad and silent cinema

• 作者: Kirby, Lynne.
• 出版: Durham : Duke University Press ©1997.
• 稽核項: ix, 338 pages :illustrations ;24 cm.
• 標題: Railroads in motion pictures. , Silent films History and criticism. , Silent films , History and criticism.
• ISBN: 0822318334 , 9780822318330
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-320) and index.
• 摘要: 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.
• 系統號: 005334552
• 資料類型: 圖書
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