Education in the School of Dreams : Travelogues and Early Nonfiction Film

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peterson, Jennifer Lynn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonfiction films--United States--History and criticism.

Travelogues (Motion pictures)--United States--History and criticism.

Travelogues (Motion pictures)--History and criticism--United States.

Travelogues (Motion pictures).

Nonfiction films--History and criticism--United States.

Nonfiction films.

Local Subjects:

Nonfiction films--United States--History and criticism.

Travelogues (Motion pictures)--United States--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, Jennifer Lynn Peterson offers new insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Dreamworld of Cinematic Travel; 1 | Varieties of Travel Experience: Burton Holmes and the Travelogue Tradition; 2 | "The Living Panorama of Nature": Early Nonfiction and the American Film Industry; 3 | "The Five-CentUniversity": Educational Films and the Drive to Uplift the Cinema; 4 | "Atop of the World in Motion": Visualizing the Pleasures of Empire; 5 | Scenic Films and the Cinematic Picturesque; 6 | "A Weird and Affecting Beauty": Watching Travel Films in the 1910s

7 | "The Nation's First Playground": Wilderness Modernized in the American WestEpilogue: Reveries of the Solitary Walker; Notes; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)

ISBN:

9780822378914

0822378914

OCLC:

843332846