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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 : Duke University Press, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.T73 P48 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-351) and index.
- Filmography: pages 323-329.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780822354413 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822354411 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822354536 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822354535 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013005286
- OCLC
- ocn816030812
- 816030812
- SCSB-5695124
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries