| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cinema and society
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Cinema and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Author bio; Endorsement; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Additional Acknowledgements; General Editor's Introduction; Introduction; Intersections; Space and Time; Approaching the Past; 1 Ghost Stories, Phantom Rides and Class at the Cinematograph Show; Ghosts in Victorian Culture; The Phantom Aesthetics of Early Cinema; Class and the 'Panicking Audience'; Phantom Rides and Rural Modernity; Railways and Countryside Cinematograph Shows; Conclusion. |
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2 Ambulance Trains and Domestic Conflict in the First World WarThe Ambulance Train; Visual Culture in the First World War; The Ambulance Train on Screen; A Shared Vocabulary; Conclusion; 3 Train Crashes, Cinema Fires, and the Precarious Modern Woman; The 'Modern' Woman; Dangerous Machines; Precarious Women; Precarious Modern Women and Onscreen Machines; Conclusion; 4 Child Evacuees and Rural Modernity in the Second World War; The (in)Visible Child in Urban and Rural Spaces; Child Evacuees as Railway Tourists; The Movie House and Making a 'Home From Home' |
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Film Exhibition and Children's SpectatorshipConclusion; 5 The Cinema Train, Modernity and Empire; The Emergence of the Movie Coach; Inside the Cinema Train; The Cinema Train's Afterlife; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Archives; Selected Works Consulted; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Railroads in motion pictures.
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Railroads in motion pictures. |
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Technology in motion pictures.
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Technology in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harrison, Rebecca. From steam to screen. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018 9781784539153 (OCoLC)1030036561 |
| ISBN |
9781786733221 (electronic book) |
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1786733226 (electronic book) |
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9781786723222 |
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1786723220 |
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9781784539153 |
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1784539155 |
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