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CONTENTS Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle Jeffrey Ruoff PART I. TRAVELING MACHINES: SPACE, TIME, DIFFERENCE "The Whole World within Reach": Travel Images without Borders Tom Gunning From Hale's Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films, and the Delirium of the Hyper-Real Lauren Rabinovitz From Lecturer's Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films Rick Altman PART II. TRAVELOGUES AND SILENT CINEMA "The Nation's First Playground": Travel Films and the American West, 1895-1920 Jennifer Lynn Peterson Between the "Familiar Text" and the "Book of the World": Touring the Ambivalent Contexts of Travel Films Paula Amad Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes; The Case of Grass Hamid Naficy Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citro¿n-, Renault-, and Peugeot-Sponsored Documentary Interwar Crossing Films Peter J. Bloom Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag; A Film Safari in the Swiss Alps, Alexandra Schneider PART III. TRAVELOGUES IN THE SOUND ERA Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue Dana Benelli "The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers": Lewis Cotlow and the Ethnographic Imaginary in Popular Travel Film Amy J. Staples Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film Jeffrey Ruoff Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen Alison Griffiths Works Cited Index
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Travelogues (Motion pictures, television, etc.) -- History and criticism.