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Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel by Alexandra Schneider , paperback
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- 9780822337133
- Book Title
- Virtual Voyages : Cinema and Travel
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Performing Arts
- Topic
- Television / History & Criticism, Film / History & Criticism
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- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 15 oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the postwar era of 16mm distribution, and today continues to flourish in IMAX theaters and a host of non-theatrical venues. It is not only the first chapter in the history of documentary but also a key element of ethnographic film, home movies, and fiction films. In this collection, leading film scholars trace the intersection of technology and ideology in representations of travel across a wide variety of cinematic forms. In so doing, they demonstrate how attention to the role of travel imagery in film blurs distinctions between genres and heightens awareness of cinema as a technology for moving through space and time, of cinema itself as a mode of travel. Some contributors take a broad view of travelogues by examining the colonial and imperial perspectives embodied in early travel films, the sensation of movement that those films evoked, and the role of live presentations such as lectures in our understanding of travelogues. Other essays are focused on specific films, figures, and technologies, including early travelogues encouraging Americans to move to the West; the making and reception of the documentary Grass (1925), shot on location in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; the role of travel imagery in 1930s Hollywood cinema; the late-twentieth-century 16mm illustrated-lecture industry; and the panoramic possibilities presented by IMAX technologies. Together the essays provide a nuanced appreciation of how, through their representations of travel, filmmakers actively produce the worlds they depict. Contributors . Rick Altman, Paula Amad, Dana Benelli, Peter J. Bloom, Alison Griffiths, Tom Gunning, Hamid Naficy, Jennifer Lynn Peterson, Lauren Rabinovitz, Jeffrey Ruoff, Alexandra Schneider, Amy J. Staples
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Duke University Press
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0822337134
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9780822337133
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Book Title
Virtual Voyages : Cinema and Travel
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
Television / History & Criticism, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
15 oz
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Pn1995.9.T73v57 2006
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“Stretching from early cinema to IMAX, Virtual Voyages offers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing-and too long overlooked-of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situate Hale’s Tours , Burton Holmes’s lectures, home movies, Grass , Jungle Headhunters , Everest , and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion.�-Gregory Waller, editor of Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition, " Virtual Voyages offers us an incisive look at the ways and means by which nonfiction cinema has mobilized itself to span time and space, carrying viewers across magical expanses for what appears to be a nominal price. The hidden costs and complex pleasures of virtual travel receive close scrutiny in a book that is sure to stimulate further explorations."-Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, "[A] timely and welcome contribution to studies of visual culture, travel narrative, media studies, anthropology and cultural history." --Robert Clarke, "Media International Australia", " Virtual Voyages offers us an incisive look at the ways and means by which nonfiction cinema has mobilized itself to span time and space, carrying viewers across magical expanses for what appears to be a nominal price. The hidden costs and complex pleasures of virtual travel receive close scrutiny in a book that is sure to stimulate further explorations." Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary "Stretching from early cinema to IMAX, Virtual Voyages offers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing--and too long overlooked--of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situate Hale's Tours, Burton Holmes's lectures, home movies, Grass, Jungle Headhunters, Everest, and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion." Gregory Waller, editor of Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition "One of the many merits of Virtual Voyages is the way it crosses over these boundaries to offer historically grounded analyses of a vast number of travel films, ranging from ride films (Lauren Rabinovitz's essay) and travel lecture films (the two essays by Rick Altman and Jeffrey Ruoff) to archival films (Paula Amad), ethnographic films (Hamid Naficy), commercial travel films sponsored either by American railway companies (Jennifer Lynn Peterson) or the French automobile industry (Peter J. Bloom), Swiss home movies (Alexandra Schneider), popular expeditionary films (Amy J. Staples), IMAX travel movies (Alison Griffiths), and Hollywood's own 1930s incursions on the travelogue (Dana Benelli's essay, the only one which addresses fiction)." - Sofia Sampaio, Scope , Issue 24, October 2012, ""Virtual Voyages'" value lies in the attention it calls to oft-overlooked history. . . . [It] is a valuable reference source. . ." --Elizabeth Mazzolini, "The Communication Review", “ Virtual Voyages offers us an incisive look at the ways and means by which nonfiction cinema has mobilized itself to span time and space, carrying viewers across magical expanses for what appears to be a nominal price. The hidden costs and complex pleasures of virtual travel receive close scrutiny in a book that is sure to stimulate further explorations.�-Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, " Virtual Voyages offers us an incisive look at the ways and means by which nonfiction cinema has mobilized itself to span time and space, carrying viewers across magical expanses for what appears to be a nominal price. The hidden costs and complex pleasures of virtual travel receive close scrutiny in a book that is sure to stimulate further explorations."--Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary, "Virtual Voyages offers us an incisive look at the ways and means by which nonfiction cinema has mobilized itself to span time and space, carrying viewers across magical expanses for what appears to be a nominal price. The hidden costs and complex pleasures of virtual travel receive close scrutiny in a book that is sure to stimulate further explorations." Bill Nichols, author of Introduction to Documentary"Stretching from early cinema to IMAX, Virtual Voyages offers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing-and too long overlooked-of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situate Hale's Tours, Burton Holmes's lectures, home movies, Grass, Jungle Headhunters, Everest, and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion." Gregory Waller, editor of Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition, ""Virtual Voyages" reveals a fine appreciation of the many and varied contextual settings of the travelogue, teasing out its different incarnations in its past and present forms." --Saige Walton, "Screening the Past", "Stretching from early cinema to IMAX, Virtual Voyages offers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing--and too long overlooked--of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situate Hale's Tours , Burton Holmes's lectures, home movies, Grass , Jungle Headhunters , Everest , and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion."--Gregory Waller, editor of Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition, "Stretching from early cinema to IMAX, Virtual Voyages offers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing-and too long overlooked-of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situate Hale's Tours , Burton Holmes's lectures, home movies, Grass , Jungle Headhunters , Everest , and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion."-Gregory Waller, editor of Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition
Table of Content
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, and the Delirium of the Hyper-Real / Lauren Rabinovitz 42 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 Ambivalent Contexts of Travel Films / Paula Amad 99 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 Peugeot-Sponsored Documentary Interwar Crossing Films / Peter J. Bloom 139 Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag --A Film Safari in the Swiss Alps / Alexandra Schneider 157 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 the Ethnographic Imaginary in Popular Travel Film / Amy J. Staples 195 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
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-026240
Dewey Decimal
791.43/62
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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