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Parallel Tracks : The Railroad and Silent Cinema - Lynne Kirby

Parallel Tracks

The Railroad and Silent Cinema

By: Lynne Kirby

Hardcover | 1 February 1997

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From the earliest days, the cinema has enjoyed a special kinship with the railroad, a mutual attraction based on similar ways of handling speed, visual perception and the promise of a journey. This work explores and explains this relationship in both historical and theoretical terms, blending film scholarship with railroad history. The author reveals the profound impact that the railroad and cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture. It should be of interest to those involved in film studies, American studies, feminist theory and the cultural study of modernity, and will be of particular interest to students of early film history. It should also appeal to general readers interested in silent films or in the history of the railroad, and includes analyses of icons of film history such as "The General" and "The Great Train Robbery".
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"The triumph of this book is in bringing film theory and social history together to form a powerful collective that makes this examination of these two key industries compulsive reading." (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1998) "Kirby's well-researched and well-written text places the separate, but as the author convincingly argues, conceptually related phenomena of silent cinema and the railway within both historical and theoretical contexts." (American Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1998)

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