Jeffrey Ruoff is Assistant Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College. He is the author of An American Family: A Televised Life and a coauthor of The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On. His films and videos, including The Last Vaudevillian and Hacklebarney Tunes: The Music of Greg Brown have been shown at festivals and on television in the United States and abroad.
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Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle / Jeffrey Ruoff 1 I. Traveling Machines: Space, Time, Difference “The Whole World Within Reach”: Travel Images without Borders / Tom Gunning 25 From Hale’s Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films, > From Lecturer’s Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films / Rick Altman 61 II. Travelogues and Silent Cinema “The Nation’s First Playground”: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson 79 Between the “Familiar Text” and the “Book of the World”: Touring the > Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes—The Case of Grass (1925) / Hamid Naficy 117 Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citroen-, Renault-, and > Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag—A Film Safari in the > III. Travelogues in the Sound Era Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue / Dana Benelli 177 “The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers”: Lewis Cotlow and > Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film / Jeffrey Ruoff 217 Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen / Alison Griffiths 238 Works Cited 259 Contributors 283 Index 285
Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle / Jeffrey Ruoff 1 I. Traveling Machines: Space, Time, Difference “The Whole World Within Reach”: Travel Images without Borders / Tom Gunning 25 From Hale’s Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films, > From Lecturer’s Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films / Rick Altman 61 II. Travelogues and Silent Cinema “The Nation’s First Playground”: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920 / Jennifer Lynn Peterson 79 Between the “Familiar Text” and the “Book of the World”: Touring the > Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes—The Case of Grass (1925) / Hamid Naficy 117 Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citroen-, Renault-, and > Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag—A Film Safari in the > III. Travelogues in the Sound Era Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue / Dana Benelli 177 “The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers”: Lewis Cotlow and > Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film / Jeffrey Ruoff 217 Time Traveling IMAX Style: Tales from the Giant Screen / Alison Griffiths 238 Works Cited 259 Contributors 283 Index 285
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