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Addressing the appeal of the journey narrative from pre-cinema to new media and through documentary, fiction and the spaces between, this collection reveals the journey to be a persistent presence across cinema and in cultural modernity.

Travel in motion pictures. --- Travelogues (Motion pictures) --- Film travelogues --- Travel lecture films --- Travelogs (Motion pictures) --- Travelogue films --- Travelogues (Motion pictures, television, etc.) --- Documentary films --- Voyages and travels in motion pictures --- Motion pictures

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Virtual Voyages illuminates the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema. The travelogue dominated the early cinema period from 1895 to 1905, was central to the consolidation of documentary in the 1910s and 1920s, proliferated in the post-war era of 16mm distribution, and today continues to flourish in IMAX theatres and a host of non-theatrical venues. It is not only the first chapter in the history of documentary but also a key element of ethnographic film, home movies, and fiction films. In this collection, leading film scholars trace the intersection of technology and ideology in representations of travel across a wide variety of cinematic forms. In so doing, they demonstrate how attention to the role of travel imagery in film blurs distinctions between genres and heightens awareness of cinema as a technology for moving through space and time, of cinema itself as a mode of travel. Some contributors take a broad view of travelogues by examining the colonial and imperial perspectives embodied in early travel films, the sensation of movement that those films evoked, and the role of live presentations such as lectures in our understanding of travelogues. Other essays are focused on specific films, figures, and technologies, including early travelogues encouraging Americans to move to the West; the making and reception of the documentary Grass (1925), shot on location in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; the role of travel imagery in 1930s Hollywood cinema; the late-twentieth-century 16mm illustrated-lecture industry; and the panoramic possibilities presented by IMAX technologies. Together the essays provide a nuanced appreciation of how, through their representations of travel, filmmakers actively produce the worlds they depict.

Travelogues (Motion pictures) --- 791.43 --- documentaire --- film --- film en etnografie --- filmgeschiedenis --- Jeffrey Ruoff, editor --- reizen --- twintigste eeuw --- Film travelogues --- Travel lecture films --- Travelogs (Motion pictures) --- Travelogue films --- Travelogues (Motion pictures, television, etc.) --- Documentary films --- History and criticism --- Travelogues (Motion pictures) - History and criticism

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Fiction --- Thematology --- Travel writing --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism --- Travelogues (Travelers' writings) --- Writings of travelers --- Travel --- Authorship --- Travel writing. --- Travelers' writings. --- Literature --- Literatura de viajes --- Historia y crítica

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Travelers' writings --- -Travel writing --- -#BIBC:ruil --- Travel --- Authorship --- Travelogues (Travelers' writings) --- Writings of travelers --- Literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Asia --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Travel writing --- #BIBC:ruil --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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This book offers a variety of essays and perspectives on some of the foreigners and traders who came to the Malay World and wrote fiction and "faction" (writing that portrays real people or events in a dramatised manner) during their sojourn - regardless of whether they continued to stay in the region, returned to their home country, or migrated to another country. The essays tend to cross generic and disciplinary boundaries as the contributors of this book are drawn from various fields withi...

Malay literature --- Travelers' writings --- Travelogues (Travelers' writings) --- Writings of travelers --- Literature --- Malaysian literature --- Singaporean literature --- History and criticism --- Malaya --- Federation of Malaya --- Malaysia, Peninsular --- Malaysia, West --- Malaysia Barat --- Peninsular Malaysia --- West Malaysia --- In literature --- Description and travel