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Virtual voyages : cinema and travel /

The different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ruoff, Jeffrey, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Traveling machines : space, time, difference
  • "The whole world within reach" : travel images without borders / Tom Gunning
  • From Hale's tours to star tours : virtual voyages, travel ride films, and the delirium of the hyper-real / Lauren Rabinovitz
  • From lecturer's prop to industrial product : the early history of travel films / Rick Altman
  • Travelogues and silent cinema
  • "The nation's first playground" : travel films and the American west, 1895-1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson
  • Between the "familiar text" and the "book of the world" : touring the ambivalent contexts of travel films / Paula Amad
  • Lured by the East : ethnographic and expedition films about nomadic tribes : the case of Grass / Hamid Naficy
  • Trans-Saharan automotive cinema : Citron-, Renault-, and Peugeot-sponsored documentary interwar crossing films / Peter J. Bloom
  • Homemade travelogues : Autosonntag : a film safari in the Swiss Alps / Alexandra Schneider
  • Travelogues in the sound era
  • Hollywood and the attractions of the travelogue / Dana Benelli
  • "The last of the great (foot-slogging) explorers" : Lewis Cotlow and the ethnographic imaginary in popular travel film / Amy J. Staples
  • Show and tell : the 16mm travel lecture film / Jeffrey Ruoff
  • Time traveling IMAX style : tales from the giant screen / Alison Griffiths.