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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Ruoff is Assistant Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of An American Family: A Televised Life and a coauthor of The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On. His films and videos, including The Last Vaudevillian and Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad. Klappentext The different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle / Jeffrey Ruoff 1 I. Traveling Machines: Space, Time, Difference “The Whole World Within Reach”: Travel Images without Borders / Tom Gunning 25 From Hale’s Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films,>From Lecturer’s Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films / Rick Altman 61 II. Travelogues and Silent Cinema “The Nation’s First Playground”: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson 79 Between the “Familiar Text” and the “Book of the World”: Touring the >Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes—The Case of Grass (1925) / Hamid Naficy 117 Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citroen-, Renault-, and >Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag—A Film Safari in the >III. Travelogues in the Sound Era Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue / Dana Benelli 177 “The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers”: Lewis Cotlow and >Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film / Jeffrey Ruoff 217 Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen / Alison Griffiths 238 Works Cited 259 Contributors 283 Index 285...
