Virtual Voyages
Cinema and Travel
1st Edition
Published on 24. January 2006
312 pages
978-0-8223-8794-7 (ISBN)
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The different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present.
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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.
Content
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
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
