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Jennifer Lynn Peterson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Preface ixAcknowledgments xixIntroduction. The Dreamworld of Cinematic Travel 11. Varieties of Travel Experience: Burton Holmes and the Travelogue Tradition 232. "The Living Panorama of Nature": Early Nonfiction and the American Film Industry 633. "The Five-Cent University": Educational Films and the Drive to Uplift the Cinema 1014. "Atop of the World in Motion": Visualizing the Pleasures of Empire 1375. Scenic Films and the Cinematic Picturesque 1756. "A Weird and Affecting Beauty": Watching Travel Films in the 1910s 2077. "The Nation's First Playground": Wilderness Modernized in the American West 235Epilogue. Reveries of the Solitary Walker 269Notes 277Filmography 323Bibliography 331Index 353
Jennifer Lynn Peterson is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.