Virtual Voyages Cinema And Travel

"Stretching from early cinema to IMAX,Virtual Voyagesoffers the best tour yet available of the production and presentation of travel films, one of the most durable and intriguing-and too long overlooked-of film genres. The reprinted and new essays collected by Jeffrey Ruoff historically situateHale's Tours, Burton Holmes's lectures, home movies,Grass,Jungle Headhunters,Everest, and a host of other examples of the genre, and theorize the particular knowledges and pleasures the travel film offers of an exotic and mundane world in motion."-Gregory Waller, editor ofMoviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film ExhibitionRuoff, Jeffrey is the author of 'Virtual Voyages Cinema And Travel', published 2006 under ISBN 9780822337133 and ISBN 0822337134.