Rebecca Harrison (UK University of Glasgow)

From Steam to Screen

Cinema, the Railways and Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first study to contextualise fully the changes brought about by railways and cinema, and demonstrate the resultant impact on everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Cinema and Society
• Verlag: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781784539153
• ISBN-10: 1784539155
• Artikelnr.: 48693347

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Harrison

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Ghost Trains, Bioscopes and the Emergence of 'Mass' Entertainment
2. Ambulance Trains and Domestic Conflict in the First World War
3. Train Crashes, Cinema Fires and Deserving Women
4. Child Evacuees and Rural Modernity in the Second World War
5. Women Porters, Projectionettes and Gendered Labour in Wartime
6. The Cinema Train, Modernity and Empire
Conclusion