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Film Exhibition and Distribution in Ireland, 1909-2010.
LIBRA PN1993.5.I85 R63 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rockett, Kevin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Ireland--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 652 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Four Courts Press Ltd, 2011.
- Summary:
- Rockett (film studies, Trinity College Dublin) provides a thorough study, organizing the subject as follows: film distribution and exhibition, 1909-29; economic protectionism and foreign oligopoly, 1929-46; British and American film interests in Ireland after the Second World War; the emergence of Ward Anderson and the challenge from new distribution technologies; multiplexes; alternative exhibition; Irish Catholic film policies in the 1920s and 1930s; and establishing a Catholic-sanctioned film culture. The final chapter addresses cinema buildings and includes a list of cinemas and public venues screening films in Ireland arranged by county. Statistics pertaining to the industry are appended. The volume is distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Part 1 Commercial Cinema Exhibition and Distribution
- 1 Film Distribution and Exhibition, 1909-29 15
- Ireland's first fun-time cinema: James Joyce and the Volta 15
- The first cinema building boom, and early exhibition practices throughout Ireland 22
- Distribution: from sale to hire and from first-run to second-run cinemas 38
- Going to the pictures during the silent period 41
- The struggle over Sunday opening in Dublin and Belfast 47
- From crisis to stability 60
- 2 Economic Protectionism and Foreign Oligopoly, 1929-46 72
- The second Irish cinema building boom, 1929-39 72
- Economic nationalism and British exhibition: 'alien penetration' in the 1930s 84
- Northern Ireland's exhibition wars in the 1930s and 1940s 96
- Other effects of war on Irish exhibition, north and south 106
- The nature of competition: exhibition 108
- The nature of competition: distribution 111
- 3 Dividing the Spoils: British and American Film Interests in Ireland after the Second World War 115
- J. Arthur Rank's cinema empire 115
- Cinema taxation 125
- The post-war audience 140
- Innovation, retrenchment and reorganization 149
- 4 The Emergence of Ward Anderson and the Challenge from New Distribution Technologies 159
- The Ward Anderson companies 159
- Investigating monopoly practices 166
- Further decline in the 1980s 175
- The challenge from new distribution technologies 179
- 5 Multiplexes and the Renewal of Irish Exhibition 193
- Defining the multiplex 193
- The multiplex in Ireland 201
- Ward Anderson and the multiplex 210
- The megaplex 214
- Other developments in Irish exhibition from the late 1990s 217
- Part 2 Alternative Film Practices
- 6 Alternative Exhibition 229
- Irish Film Society/Cumann na Scannán 2.29
- Federation of Irish Film Societies/Access>CINEMA 242
- Cultural cinema in Northern Ireland 246
- Commercial art cinema in the Irish Republic 249
- Project Cinema Club 252
- Irish Film Theatre 253
- Irish Film Institute cinemas (including the Light House Cinema, Abbey Street) 260
- Dedicated full-time art cinemas outside the capital 265
- Film festivals in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Derry, Belfast and elsewhere 270
- 7 Irish Catholic Film Policies in the 1920s and 1930s 293
- The Catholic hierarchy and the immorality of imported popular culture 293
- Father Richard Devane's crusade for an Irish film institute 299
- The state responds 307
- The Catholic hierarchy and film policy 314
- 8 Establishing a Catholic-Sanctioned Film Culture in Ireland 319
- Establishing an Irish (Catholic) film institute 319
- The National Irish Film Institute of Ireland, 1945-82 336
- The perennial controversy: children and the cinema 341
- Archbishop McQuaid and the screening of religious themed films 353
- Part 3 Cinema Buildings in Ireland
- 9 Irish Cinemas 366
- The cinema building 366
- A note on sources and scope of cinemas' list 367
- List of cinemas and public venues screening films in Ireland (arranged by county) 369.
- ISBN:
- 9781846823169
- 1846823161
- OCLC:
- 744284374
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