Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early
History of Cinema 19
2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film 75
3. The Railroad in the City 133
4. National Identity in the Train Film 189
Conclusion 241
Notes 253
Works Cited 305
Index 321
“Irresistible—Parallel Tracks is a highly original and unique work.
Kirby’s intersection of theoretical concerns with a rich
exploration of the relation between cinema and the railway provides
a work that is fascinating, intriguing, and intellectually
entertaining.”—Tom Gunning, Northwestern University
“Lynne Kirby switches elegantly between the registers of historical
account, theoretical speculation, intertextual mapping, and close
analysis. She enriches the genre of cultural histories of
technology with detailed attention to the apparatus and textual
processes elaborated over the past two decades in cinema studies.
And she enriches the latter by opening up the focus from cinema to
include related institutions and the dynamics of the public sphere
that encompasses and is shaped by both.”—Miriam Hansen, University
of Chicago
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