Parallel Tracks
Subtitle: The Railroad and Silent Cinema
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780822318330
Subjects: Cultural studies; Film theory & criticism; Railway transport industries; Special Subjects In Motion Pictures; Railroads; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Cinema/Film: Book; USA; Film & Video - General; American Studies; Film & Television Studies; Railroads in motion pictures; Silent films
First sentence: Beginning in 1895, cinema established itself first and foremost as a window on the world, a dazzling new source of visual information in the form of short films called actualities.