‘‘The Nation’s First Playground’’: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. Introduction: The Filmic Fourth Dimension: Cinema as Audiovisual Vehicle 1
5. I Traveling Machines. space, time, difference
6. ‘‘The Whole World Within Reach’’: Travel Images without Borders 25
7. From Hale’s Tours to Star Tours: Virtual Voyages, Travel Ride Films, and the Delirium of the Hyper-Real 42
8. From Lecturer’s Prop to Industrial Product: The Early History of Travel Films 61
9. II Travelogues and Silent Cinema
10. ‘‘The Nation’s First Playground’’: Travel Films and the American West, 1895–1920 79
11. Between the ‘‘Familiar Text’’ and the ‘‘Book of the World’’: Touring the Ambivalent Contexts of Travel Films 99
12. Lured by the East: Ethnographic and Expedition Films about Nomadic Tribes—The Case of Grass (1925) 117
13. Trans-Saharan Automotive Cinema: Citroën-, Renault-, and Peugeot-Sponsored Documentary Interwar Crossing Films 139
14. Homemade Travelogues: Autosonntag— A Film Safari in the Swiss Alps 157
15. III Travelogues in the Sound Era
16. Hollywood and the Attractions of the Travelogue 177
17. ‘‘The Last of the Great (Foot-Slogging) Explorers’’: Lewis Cotlow and the Ethnographic Imaginary in Popular Travel Film 195
18. Show and Tell: The 16mm Travel Lecture Film 217
19. Time Traveling imax Style: Tales from the Giant Screen 238
20. Works Cited 259
21. Contributors 283
22. Index 285