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Education in the school of dreams : travelogues and early nonfiction film

Title
Education in the school of dreams : travelogues and early nonfiction film / Jennifer Lynn Peterson.
Author
Peterson, Jennifer Lynn, 1968-
Publication
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.

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Description
xxiii, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some mcolor); 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-351) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the dreamworld of cinematic travel -- Varieties of travel experience : Burton Holmes and the travelogue tradition -- "The living panorama of nature" : early nonfiction and the American film industry -- "The five-cent University : educational films and the drive to uplift the cinema -- Atop of the world in motion : the travelogue system -- Scenic films and the cinematic picturesque -- "A weird and affecting beauty" : watching travel films in the 1910s -- "The nation's first playground" : wilderness modernized in the American West -- Epilogue: reveries of the solitary walker.
Call Number
MFL 13-4954
ISBN
  • 9780822354413 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822354411 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822354536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822354535 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013005286
OCLC
816030812
Author
Peterson, Jennifer Lynn, 1968-
Title
Education in the school of dreams : travelogues and early nonfiction film / Jennifer Lynn Peterson.
Publisher
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-351) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 13-4954
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