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From Steam to Screen - Cinema, the Railways and Modernity

English · Paperback / Softback

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List of contents

Introduction

Ghost Trains, Bioscopes and the Emergence of ‘Mass’ Entertainment

2. Ambulance Trains and Domestic Conflict in the First World War

3. Train Crashes, Cinema Fires and Deserving Women

4. Child Evacuees and Rural Modernity in the Second World War

5. Women Porters, Projectionettes and Gendered Labour in Wartime

6. The Cinema Train, Modernity and Empire

Conclusion

About the author

Rebecca Harrison is a UK-based Independent Scholar. She has published From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity (2018), and articles on cinema, technology, and their intersections with gender, race and class. She received the Routledge-IAMHIST Best Article by a Junior Scholar Award in 2016.

Summary

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing into life onscreen. And, whether in films about train travel, or in newspaper articles about movie theatres on trains, stories about the convergence of the railway and cinema were especially prominent. Together, the two technologies radically transformed how people interacted with the world around them, and became crucial to how British media reflected the nation's modernity and changing role within the empire. Rebecca Harrison draws on archival sources and an extensive corpus of films to trace the intertwined histories of the train and the screen for the first time. In doing so, she presents a new and illuminating material and cultural history of the period, and demonstrates the myriad ways railways and cinema coalesced to transform the population's everyday life.
With examples taken from more than 240 newsreels and 40 feature-length films, From Steam to Screen is essential reading for students and researchers working on film studies and British history at the turn of the century and beyond.

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A delightful book to read from start to finish … fascinating.

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