Regarding films about trains, don't froget Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes."
I have a paper on film, philosophy, trains and this film entitled "Film
and the Transcendental Imagination: Kant and Hitchcock's The
Lady Vanishes," in Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, ed.
Dominic Lopes and Matthew Kieran. London: Routledge, 2003. I argue that
the train in the film is used as a metaphor for film itself.
Best,
Melissa Zinkin
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>Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 10:14:10 +0100
>From: Chris Lynn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: films about trains
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>I just recently saw Station Agent, which is set in and around a train
>depot and it reminded me of my film Massive Antiques, which was also about
>trains and relatioships. I was wondering how many more are there? A great
>subject for obvious reasons. Cheers.
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>Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 11:37:04 -0400
>From: "Mark L. Feinsod" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: films about trains
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>"The Thirty-Nine Steps" does have a lengthy train sequence, where
>Robert Donat travels from London to Scotland. BTW, another good
>example is that very famous Lumiere Bros. film from way back when....
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>On May 15, 2004, at 11:22 AM, elaine pigeon wrote:
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>> Don't forget Hitchcock's The Thirty-Nine Steps, or is it The Wrong
>> Man? that
>> begins on a train.
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>> Elaine Pigeon
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