Virtual Voyages

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Jeffrey Ruoff is Assistant Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of "An American Family: A Televised Life" and a coauthor of "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On." His films and videos, including "The Last Vaudevillian" and "Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown" have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad.

Klappentext
A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema



Autorentext
Jeffrey Ruoff, ed.

Klappentext
A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema

Zusammenfassung
A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema

Inhalt
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle / Jeffrey Ruoff 1
I. Traveling Machines: Space, Time, Difference
“The Whole World Within Reach”: Travel Images without Borders / Tom Gunning 25
From Hale’s Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films,
> From Lecturer’s Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films / Rick Altman 61
II. Travelogues and Silent Cinema
“The Nation’s First Playground”: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson 79
Between the “Familiar Text” and the “Book of the World”: Touring the
> Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic
Tribes—The Case of Grass (1925) / Hamid Naficy 117
Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citroen-, Renault-, and
> Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag—A Film Safari in the
> III. Travelogues in the Sound Era
Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue / Dana Benelli 177
“The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers”: Lewis Cotlow and
> Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film / Jeffrey Ruoff 217
Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen / Alison Griffiths 238
Works Cited 259
Contributors 283
Index 285

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