Ruoff Virtual Voyages

Cinema and Travel
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8794-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

The different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruoff, Jeffrey

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gunning, Tom

Rabinovitz, Lauren

Altman, Rick

Peterson, Jennifer Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Ruoff is Assistant Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of An American Family: A Televised Life and a coauthor of The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On. His films and videos, including The Last Vaudevillian and Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad.