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Exhibition, the film reader / edited by Ina Rae Hark.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U6 E96 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- In focus--Routledge film readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture theaters--United States--History.
- Motion picture theaters.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- From the kinetoscope to the Movie Palaces of Hollywood's golden age, to today's multiplexes, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film history. "Exhibition, The Film Reader" traces the emergence of a culture of movie going, exploring the range of venues in which films have been shown, and following the fluctuating fortunes of film and its continuing struggle to win audiences. Contributors explore the meanings conveyed to spectators through different exhibition sites and practices, raises key questions of distribution, access and consumption, and examines the shifting ethnic, gender and economic make-up of audiences.
- Contents:
- The nickelodeon theater, 1904-1914 : building an audience for the movies / Russell Merritt
- Another audience : Black moviegoing from 1907 to 1916 / Gregory Waller
- At the picture show / Kathryn Helgesen Fuller
- The movie palace and the theatrical sources of its architectural style / Charlotte Herzog
- Discourses on art houses in the 1950s / Barbara Wilinsky
- The K-Mart audience at the mall movies / William Paul
- The rise of the national theatre chains : Balaban & Katz / Douglas Gomery
- The relationship between motion picture distribution and exhibition : an analysis of the effects of anti-blind-bidding legislation / Suzanne I. Schiller
- Where the drive-in fits into the movie industry / Anthony Downs
- The evolution of the motion picture theater business in the 1980s / Thomas Guback
- The best remaining seats / Ben M. Hall
- The "theater man" and the "the girl in the box office" / Ina Rae Hark
- The multiplex : the modern American motion picture theater as message / Gary Edgerton
- Film and society : public rituals and private space / Dudley Andrew
- Spectorial flânerie / Anne Friedberg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415235170
- 0415235189
- OCLC:
- 47764288
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