Description
Book SynopsisThis highly original work reveals the profound impact that the railroad and the cinema have had on Western society and modern urban industrial culture.
Trade Review
“The triumph of this book is in bringing film theory and social history together to form a powerful collective that makes this examination of these two key industries compulsive reading." (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1998) "Kirby's well-researched and well-written text places the separate, but as the author convincingly argues, conceptually related phenomena of silent cinema and the railway within both historical and theoretical contexts." (American Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1998)
Table of Contents
Contents: Inventors and hysterics - the train in the pre-history and early history of cinema; romances of the rail in silent film; the railroad in the city; national identity in the train film.
