{"product_id":"virtual-voyages-9780822337133","title":"Virtual Voyages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVirtual Voyages\u003c\/i\u003e offers us an incisive look at the ways and means by which nonfiction cinema has mobilized itself to span time and space, carrying viewers across magical expanses for what appears to be a nominal price. The hidden costs and complex pleasures of virtual travel receive close scrutiny in a book that is sure to stimulate further explorations.”—Bill Nichols, author of \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Documentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stretching from early cinema to IMAX, \u003ci\u003eVirtual Voyages\u003c\/i\u003e offers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing—and too long overlooked—of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situate \u003ci\u003eHale’s Tours\u003c\/i\u003e, Burton Holmes’s lectures, home movies, \u003ci\u003eGrass\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJungle Headhunters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEverest\u003c\/i\u003e, and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion.”—Gregory Waller, editor of \u003ci\u003eMoviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle \/ Jeffrey Ruoff 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Traveling Machines: Space, Time, Difference \u003cbr\u003e  “The Whole World Within Reach”: Travel Images without Borders \/ Tom Gunning 25\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eHale’s Tours \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eStar Tours\u003c\/i\u003e: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films,\u003cbr\u003eand the Delirium of the Hyper-Real \/ Lauren Rabinovitz 42\u003cbr\u003e From Lecturer’s Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films \/ Rick Altman 61\u003cbr\u003e II. Travelogues and Silent Cinema \u003cbr\u003e “The Nation’s First Playground”: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920 \/ Jennifer Lynn Peterson 79\u003cbr\u003e Between the “Familiar Text” and the “Book of the World”: Touring the \u003cbr\u003eAmbivalent Contexts of Travel Films \/ Paula Amad 99\u003cbr\u003e Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic \u003cbr\u003e Tribes—The Case of \u003ci\u003eGrass\u003c\/i\u003e (1925) \/ Hamid Naficy 117\u003cbr\u003e Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citroen-, Renault-, and \u003cbr\u003ePeugeot-Sponsored Documentary Interwar Crossing Films \/ Peter J. Bloom 139\u003cbr\u003e Homemade Travelogues: \u003ci\u003eAutosonntag\u003c\/i\u003e—A Film Safari in the \u003cbr\u003eSwiss Alps \/ Alexandra Schneider 157\u003cbr\u003e III. Travelogues in the Sound Era \u003cbr\u003e Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue \/ Dana Benelli 177\u003cbr\u003e “The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers”: Lewis Cotlow and \u003cbr\u003ethe Ethnographic Imaginary in Popular Travel Film \/ Amy J. Staples 195\u003cbr\u003e Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film \/ Jeffrey Ruoff 217\u003cbr\u003e Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen \/ Alison Griffiths 238\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 259\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 283\u003cbr\u003e Index 285","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406040801623,"sku":"9780822337133","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337133.jpg?v=1730494339","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/virtual-voyages-9780822337133","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}