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Title:

PARALLEL TRACKS
THE RAILROAD AND SILENT CINEMA

By:

Lynne Kirby

Format:

Hardback

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£75.00

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ISBN 10:

0859895289

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9780859895286

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1997

Series:

Exeter Studies in Film History

Pages:

348

Description:

This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.

Synopsis:

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 historical and theoretical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history.This highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture. It will be eagerly received by those involved in film studies, American studies, feminist theory and the cultural study of modernity. It will also have appeal to general readers interested in silent films or in the history of the railroad.

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University of Exeter Press

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