Education in the school of dreams travelogues and early nonfiction film

Introduction : the dreamworld of cinematic travel -- Varieties of travel experience : Burton Holmes and the travelogue tradition -- "The living panorama of nature" : early nonfiction and the American film industry -- "The five-cent University : educational films and the drive to uplif...

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1. Verfasser: Peterson, Jennifer Lynn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Durham, London Duke University Press 2013
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : the dreamworld of cinematic travel -- Varieties of travel experience : Burton Holmes and the travelogue tradition -- "The living panorama of nature" : early nonfiction and the American film industry -- "The five-cent University : educational films and the drive to uplift the cinema -- Atop of the world in motion : the travelogue system -- Scenic films and the cinematic picturesque -- "A weird and affecting beauty" : watching travel films in the 1910s -- "The nation's first playground" : wilderness modernized in the American West -- Epilogue: reveries of the solitary walker.
Beschreibung:XXIII, 369 S., [4] Bl.
Ill.
ISBN:9780822354413
978-0-8223-5441-3
9780822354536
978-0-8223-5453-6
0822354411
0-8223-5441-1