Parallel Tracks. The railroad and silent cinema
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
España peninsular
- Editorial UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
- ISBN13 9780859895309
- ISBN10 0859895300
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 338
- Año de Edición 1996
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Teoría CinematográficaParallel Tracks. The railroad and silent cinema
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
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.