Virtual voyages
Subtitle: cinema and travel
By: Jeffrey Ruoff, editor.
Contributors: Ruoff, Jeffrey, 1962-
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Travelogues (Motion pictures, television, etc.) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The whole world within reach": travel images without borders / Tom Gunning; title: From Hale's tours to star tours: virtual voyages, travel ride films, and the delirium of the hyper-real / Lauren Rabinovitz; title: From lecturer's prop to industrial product: the early history of travel films / Rick Altman; title: "The nation's first playground": travel films and the American west, 1895-1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson; title: Between the "familiar text" and the "book of the world": touring the ambivalent contexts of travel films / Paula Amad; title: Lured by the East: ethnographic and expedition films about nomadic tribes: the case of Grass / Hamid Naficy; title: Trans-Saharan automotive cinema: Citron-, Renault-, and Peugeot-sponsored documentary interwar crossing films / Peter J. Bloom; title: Homemade travelogues: Autosonntag: a film safari in the Swiss Alps / Alexandra Schneider; title: Hollywood and the attractions of the travelogue / Dana Benelli; title: "The last of the great (foot-slogging) explorers": Lewis Cotlow and the ethnographic imaginary in popular travel film / Amy J. Staples; title: Show and tell: the 16mm travel lecture film / Jeffrey Ruoff; title: Time traveling IMAX style: tales from the giant screen / Alison Griffiths.