Book ID: CBB183561378

Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art (2021)

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Benjamin Fraser (Editor)
Steven D. Spalding (Editor)


Berghahn Books


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 250
Language: English

Since the advent of train travel, railways have compressed space and crossed national boundaries to become transnational icons, evoking hope, dread, progress, or obsolescence in different cultural domains. Spanning five continents and a diverse range of contexts, this collection offers an unprecedentedly broad survey of global representations of trains. From experimental novels to Hollywood blockbusters, the works studied here chart fascinating routes across a remarkably varied cultural landscape.

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Review Hugo Silveira Pereira (2023) Review of "Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art". Technology and Culture (pp. 271-272). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Steven D. Spalding; Benjamin Fraser (2021) Conclusion: Mind the Gap. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Scott D. Juall (2021) Chapter 10. Nord-Sud: The Parisian Metro and Transnational Avant-Garde Artistic Mobilities and Movements in Early Twentieth-Century Paris. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Araceli Masterson-Algar (2021) Chapter 9. Memories of Trains and Trains of Memory: Journeys from Past-Futures to Present-Pasts in El Tren de la Memoria (2005). In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Chatterjee, Abhishek (2021) Chapter 8. Literary Railway Bazaars: Transnational Discourses of Difference and Nostalgia in Contemporary India. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Singh, Dhan Zunino (2021) Chapter 7. The Cosmopolitan Writer: Exploring Representations on the Underground Railways of Buenos Aires and Paris through Julio Cortázar. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Steven D. Spalding (2021) Chapter 6. Crossing Borders On and Beyond the Train in Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989). In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Steven D. Spalding; Heather Joyce (2021) Chapter 5. Anachronism, Ambivalence, and (Trans)National Self-reference: Tracking the English Literary Chunnel from 1986 on. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (2021-10-01) Chapter 4. Dangerous Borders: Modernization and the Gothic Mode in Horror Express (1972) and Howl (2015). In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter John D. Schwetman (2021) Chapter 3. A Genealogy of Apocalyptic Trains: Snowpiercer and Its Precursors in the Transnational Literature of Transport. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Benjamin Fraser (2021) Chapter 2. The Sonic Force of the Machine Ensemble: Transnational Objectification in Steve Reich’s Different Trains (1988). In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

Chapter Aimée Boutin (2021) Chapter 1. The Railway Arts: Sound and Space Beyond Borders. In: Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
White, John H., Jr.
Cupper, Dan
Robert L. Frey
Chant, Christopher
Kennedy, Ian G.
Middleton, William D.
Journals
Railroad History
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Publishers
Signature Press
W. W. Norton & Co.
Yale University Press
Center for Railroad Photography and Art
Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society
Chartwell Books
Concepts
Railroads
Land transportation
Locomotives, steam
Photography of railroads
Railway industry
Illustrations
People
Stephenson, Robert
Nigel Gresley
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
North America
Oregon (U.S.)
Sierra Nevada (North America)
Western states (U.S.)
Institutions
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Center for Railroad Photography and Art
Great Northern Railway Company
Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
Pennsylvania Railroad
Armstrong Whitworth Company
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