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Virtual voyages : cinema and travel / Jeffrey Ruoff, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelogues (Television programs)--History and criticism.
- Travelogues (Television programs).
- Travelogues (Motion pictures)--History and criticism.
- Travelogues (Motion pictures).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present.
- Contents:
- Traveling machines : space, time, difference
- "The whole world within reach" : travel images without borders / Tom Gunning
- From Hale's tours to star tours : virtual voyages, travel ride films, and the delirium of the hyper-real / Lauren Rabinovitz
- From lecturer's prop to industrial product : the early history of travel films / Rick Altman
- Travelogues and silent cinema
- "The nation's first playground" : travel films and the American west, 1895-1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson
- Between the "familiar text" and the "book of the world" : touring the ambivalent contexts of travel films / Paula Amad
- Lured by the East : ethnographic and expedition films about nomadic tribes : the case of Grass / Hamid Naficy
- Trans-Saharan automotive cinema : Citron-, Renault-, and Peugeot-sponsored documentary interwar crossing films / Peter J. Bloom
- Homemade travelogues : Autosonntag : a film safari in the Swiss Alps / Alexandra Schneider
- Travelogues in the sound era
- Hollywood and the attractions of the travelogue / Dana Benelli
- "The last of the great (foot-slogging) explorers" : Lewis Cotlow and the ethnographic imaginary in popular travel film / Amy J. Staples
- Show and tell : the 16mm travel lecture film / Jeffrey Ruoff
- Time traveling IMAX style : tales from the giant screen / Alison Griffiths.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8794-8
- OCLC:
- 220951516
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