American Showman [electronic resource] : Samuel

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melnick, Ross.

Series:

Film and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businessmen--United States--Biography.

Motion picture industry--United States--History.

Motion picture theater owners--United States--Biography.

Radio broadcasters--United States--Biography.

Rothafel, Samuel Lionel, -- 1881-1936.

Rothafel, Samuel Lionel, 1881-1936.

Rothafel, Samuel Lionel.

Local Subjects:

Businessmen--United States--Biography.

Motion picture industry--United States--History.

Motion picture theater owners--United States--Biography.

Radio broadcasters--United States--Biography.

Rothafel, Samuel Lionel, -- 1881-1936.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (581 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Samuel ""Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in silent film exhibition; scored early Fox Movietone films such as Sunrise (1927); pioneered the convergence of film, broadcasting, and music publishing and recording in the 1920s; and helped movies and moviegoing become the dominant form of mass entertainment between the world wars. Regularly cited as one of the

Contents:

CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part One ROXY AND SILENT FILM EXHIBITION; 1. A New Art for a New Art Form; 2. Broadway Melody; 3. The Movie House as Recruiting Center; 4. ""The Man Who Gave the Movies a College Education""; Part Two ROXY AND THE EMERGENCE OF CONVERGENCE; 5. A Capitol Idea; 6. ""It's the Roxy and I'm Roxy""; 7. It's All Playing in Sheboygan; 8. The Prologue is Past; Afterword; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

818856777