Trains, Culture, and Mobility

Edited by Benjamin Fraser and Steven D. Spalding - Contributions by Samuel Gerald Collins; Colin Divall; Tristan R. Grunow; Araceli Masterson-Algar; Alexander Medcalf; Agata Morka; Hiraku Shimoda; Hiroki Shin; Peter Soppelsa and Rowan Wilken

Trains, Culture and Mobility is-along with its companion volume: Trains, Literature and Culture-the first work to thoroughly explore the railroad's connections with a full range of cultural discourses-including literature, visual art, music, graffiti, and television but also advertising, architecture, cell phones, and more...

IntroductionBenjamin Fraser and Steven D. SpaldingPart I. Speed and VisionChapter 1: Cultures of Speed and Conservative Modernity: Representations of Speed in Britain's Railway MarketingColin Divall & Hiroki ShinChapter 2: The Speed of Signs: Train Graffiti, Cultural Production and the Mobility of the Urban in France and SpainBenjamin Fraser and Steven D. SpaldingPart II. On PassengersChapter 3: 'What to Wear and Where to Go': Picturing the Modern Consumer on the Great Western Railway 1921-39Alexander MedcalfChapter 4: Seen from a Carriage: A Rhythmanalytic Study of Train Travel and MediationRowan WilkenPart III. City NetworksChapter 5: Urban Railways, Industrial Infrastructure and the Paris Cityscape, 1870-1914Peter SoppelsaChapter 6: Subways and Cell Phones: Seoul as a Network CitySamuel Gerald CollinsPart IV. Inside the StationChapter 7: Brief Encounters and Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Train Station ArchitectureAgata MorkaChapter 8: Digging Madrid: A Descent into Madrid's Subway Museum, 'Andén 0 [Platform] 0'Araceli Masterson-AlgarPart V. Shifting StatesChapter 9: Trains, Modernity, and State-Formation in Meiji JapanTristan R. GrunowChapter 10: 'The Super-Express of Our Dreams' and Other Mythologies about Postwar JapanHiraku ShimodaNotes on ContributorsIndex