Parallel Tracks - The Railroad and Silent Cinema

"Lynne Kirby switches elegantly between the registers of historical account, theoretical speculation, intertextual mapping, and close analysis. She enriches the genre of cultural histories of technology with detailed attention to the apparatus and textual processes elaborated over the past two decades in cinema studies. And she enriches the latter by opening up the focus from cinema to include related institutions and the dynamics of the public sphere that encompasses and is shaped by both."--Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago

List of contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema 19

2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film 75

3. The Railroad in the City 133

4. National Identity in the Train Film 189

Conclusion 241

Notes 253

Works Cited 305

Index 321

About the author

Lynne Kirby

Product details

• Authors: Kirby, Lynne Kirby, Lynne Kirby
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.1997
• EAN: 9780822318330
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1833-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Illustrations: 33 b&w photographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Kulturwissenschaften, Fernsehen, TV, Transport- und Verkehrswirtschaft