Lynne Kirby is a Senior Producer at Court Television Network. Her articles on the railroad and cinema have appeared in major American film journals.

The triumph of this book is in bringing film theory and social history together to form a powerful collective that makes this examination of these two key industries compulsive reading.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film3. The Railroad in the City4. National Identity in the Train FilmConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Lynne Kirby is a Senior Producer at Court Television Network. Her articles on the railroad and cinema have appeared in major American film journals.

The triumph of this book is in bringing film theory and social history together to form a powerful collective that makes this examination of these two key industries compulsive reading.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film3. The Railroad in the City4. National Identity in the Train FilmConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Lynne Kirby is a Senior Producer at Court Television Network. Her articles on the railroad and cinema have appeared in major American film journals.

The triumph of this book is in bringing film theory and social history together to form a powerful collective that makes this examination of these two key industries compulsive reading.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inventors and Hysterics: The Train in the Prehistory and Early History of Cinema2. Romances of the Rail in Silent Film3. The Railroad in the City4. National Identity in the Train FilmConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex