From Steam to Screen: Cinema, the Railways and Modernity

by Rebecca Harrison

Book Overview

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing into life onscreen. And, whether in films about train travel, or in newspaper articles about movie theatres on trains, stories about the convergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350252379
• ISBN13: 9781350252370
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"