Author: Burton HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Burton Holmes Travelogues
Author: Burton HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Early Travel Photography
Author: Burton HolmesPublisher:
ISBN: 9783836521406
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Representing the best of the Holmes archive and brimming with brilliant color photographs, this rare window on the world of 100 years ago will transport readers to a time that has all but evaporated.
London. Paris. Berlin
Author: Burton HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Virtual Voyages
Author: Jeffrey RuoffPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822337133
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
DIVThe different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present./div
Travelogues
Author: Burton HolmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Education in the School of Dreams
Author: Jennifer Lynn PetersonPublisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: 9780822354413
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "scenics," depicted tourist destinations and exotic landscapes otherwise inaccessible to most viewers. Scenics were so popular that they were briefly touted as the future of film. But despite their pervasiveness during the early twentieth century, travelogues have been overlooked by film historians and critics. In Education in the School of Dreams, Jennifer Lynn Peterson recovers this lost archive. Through innovative readings of travelogues and other nonfiction films exhibited in the United States between 1907 and 1915, she offers fresh insights into the aesthetic and commercial history of early cinema and provides a new perspective on the intersection of American culture, imperialism, and modernity in the nickelodeon era. Peterson describes the travelogue's characteristic form and style and demonstrates how imperialist ideologies were realized and reshaped through the moving image. She argues that although educational films were intended to legitimate filmgoing for middle-class audiences, travelogues were not simply vehicles for elite ideology. As a form of instructive entertainment, these technological moving landscapes were both formulaic and also wondrous and dreamlike. Considering issues of spectatorship and affect, Peterson argues that scenics produced and disrupted viewers' complacency about their own place in the world.
On the Road with Travelogues, 1935-1995
Author: Thayer SoulePublisher:
ISBN: 9780897167673
Category : Travelogues (Television programs)
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A Time of Gifts
Author: Patrick Leigh FermorPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175174
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written. At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube. At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.
The Burton Holmes Lectures
Author: Burton HolmesColonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Author: Ian AitkenPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474407226
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing together a range of international scholars, the book sheds new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in the colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrate the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region.