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From silent screen to multi-screen : a history of cinema exhibtion in Britain since 1896 / Stuart Hanson.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.G7 H356 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanson, Stuart.
- Series:
- Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
- Studies in popular culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--Great Britain--History.
- Motion picture industry.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
- Summary:
- Detailed and Comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.
- Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinemagoing in Britain from the first public film screening by the Lumiere Brothers at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896, through to the development of the multiplex and giant megaplex cinemas, the history of cinema exhibition is placed in its wider social, cultural and economic contexts. Adopting a chronological structure, this book takes into account how changes in the structure of the film industry, especially regarding the exhibition sector, impacted upon the cinema-going experience.
- From silent screen to multi-screen will be valuable for social historians as well as scholars and students in film studies, media studies and cultural history.
- Contents:
- 1 From the fairground to the picture palace: 1896-1913 6
- 2 Post-war consolidation, the coming of sound and Hollywood: 1913-30 35
- 3 Cinema as mass entertainment: 1930-50 59
- 4 From 'Golden Age' to the beginnings of decline: 1950-60 87
- 5 Sub-dividing and falling, and the lessons from the USA: 1960s-1984 117
- 6 The multiplex revolution: 1985-present 144
- 7 The future for cinema exhibition in the digital age 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [192]-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719069451
- 9780719069444
- 0719069440
- 0719069459
- OCLC:
- 148905679
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