From steam to screen : cinema, the railways and modernity /: cinema, the railways and modernity. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rebecca Harrison.
• Authors: Harrison, Rebecca
• Contents: Cover; Author bio; Endorsement; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Additional Acknowledgements; General Editor's Introduction; Introduction; Intersections; Space and Time; Approaching the Past; 1 Ghost Stories, Phantom Rides and Class at the Cinematograph Show; Ghosts in Victorian Culture; The Phantom Aesthetics of Early Cinema; Class and the 'Panicking Audience'; Phantom Rides and Rural Modernity; Railways and Countryside Cinematograph Shows; Conclusion. 2 Ambulance Trains and Domestic Conflict in the First World WarThe Ambulance Train; Visual Culture in the First World War; The Ambulance Train on Screen; A Shared Vocabulary; Conclusion; 3 Train Crashes, Cinema Fires, and the Precarious Modern Woman; The 'Modern' Woman; Dangerous Machines; Precarious Women; Precarious Modern Women and Onscreen Machines; Conclusion; 4 Child Evacuees and Rural Modernity in the Second World War; The (in)Visible Child in Urban and Rural Spaces; Child Evacuees as Railway Tourists; The Movie House and Making a 'Home From Home' Film Exhibition and Children's SpectatorshipConclusion; 5 The Cinema Train, Modernity and Empire; The Emergence of the Movie Coach; Inside the Cinema Train; The Cinema Train's Afterlife; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Archives; Selected Works Consulted; Index.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 299 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.43/656; Railroads in motion pictures; Technology in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Railroads in motion pictures; Technology in motion pictures; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786733221; 1786733226; 9781786723222; 1786723220
• Related ISBNs: 9781784539153; 1784539155
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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