Education in the School of Dreams : Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film /

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Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, Jennifer Lynn Peterson offers new insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Peterson, Jennifer Lynn, 1968-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
Nonfiction films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Films autres que de fiction > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Films de voyage > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Nonfiction films > United States > History and criticism.
Travelogues (Motion pictures) > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : the dreamworld of cinematic travel
  • varieties of travel experience : burton holmes and the travelogue tradition
  • "The living panorama of nature" : early nonfiction and the american film industry
  • "The five-cent university : educational films and the drive to uplift the cinema
  • atop of the world in motion : the travelogue system
  • scenic films and the cinematic picturesque
  • "A weird and affecting beauty" : watching travel films in the 1910s
  • "The nation's first playground" : wilderness modernized in the american west
  • epilogue: reveries of the solitary walker.

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