Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 299 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
1784539155
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9781350986527
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9781784539153
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9781786723222
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9781786733221
Series Statement:
Cinema and society
Content:
In late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing into life onscreen. And, whether in films about train travel, or in newspaper articles about movie theatres on trains, stories about the convergence of the railway and cinema were especially prominent. Together, the two technologies radically transformed how people interacted with the world around them, and became crucial to how British media reflected the nation's modernity and empire. Rebecca Harrison draws on archival sources and an extensive corpus of films to trace the intertwined histories of the train and the screen for the first time. In doing so, she presents a new and illuminating material and cultural history of the period, and demonstrates the myriad ways railways and cinema coalesced to transform the population's everyday life. With examples taken from more than 240 newsreels and 40 feature-length films, From Steam to Screen is essential reading for students and researchers working on film studies and British history at the turn of the century and beyond. Book jacket
Content:
Machine generated contents note: Intersections -- Space and Time -- Approaching the Past -- 1. Ghost Stories, Phantom Rides and Class at the Cinematograph Show -- Ghosts in Victorian Culture -- The Phantom Aesthetics of Early Cinema -- Class and the `Panicking Audience' -- Phantom Rides and Rural Modernity --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350986527
