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- catalog abstract "From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception, and the promise of a journey. Parallel Tracks is the first book to explore and explain this relationship in both theoretical and historical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history. Describing the train as a mechanical double for the cinema, Lynne Kirby gives her romantic topic a compelling twist. She views the railroad/cinema romance in light of the technological and cultural instability underlying modernity and presents the railroad and cinema as complementary experiences that shaped the modern world and its subjects - the passengers and spectators who traveled through that world. In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films - icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed - Kirby examines how trains and rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture.".
- catalog contributor b9667312.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema -- 2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film -- 3. The Railroad in the City -- 4. National Identity in the Train Film.".
- catalog description "From its earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception, and the promise of a journey. Parallel Tracks is the first book to explore and explain this relationship in both theoretical and historical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history. Describing the train as a mechanical double for the cinema, Lynne Kirby gives her romantic topic a compelling twist. She views the railroad/cinema romance in light of the technological and cultural instability underlying modernity and presents the railroad and cinema as complementary experiences that shaped the modern world and its subjects - the passengers and spectators who traveled through that world.".
- catalog description "In wide-ranging and provocative analyses of dozens of silent films - icons of film history like The General and The Great Train Robbery as well as many that are rarely discussed - Kirby examines how trains and rail travel embodied concepts of spectatorship and mobility grounded in imperialism and the social, sexual, and racial divisions of modern Western culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-320) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 338 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Parallel tracks.".
- catalog identifier "0822318334 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822318393 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Parallel tracks.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Parallel tracks.".
- catalog subject "791.43/656 20".
- catalog subject "PN1995.9.R25 K57 1996".
- catalog subject "PN1995.9.R25 K57 1997".
- catalog subject "Railroads in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Silent films History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Silent films.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema -- 2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film -- 3. The Railroad in the City -- 4. National Identity in the Train Film.".
- catalog title "Parallel tracks : the railroad and silent cinema / Lynne Kirby.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".