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Hollywood in the neighborhood : historical case studies of local moviegoing
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ISBN: 0520940229 1281385603 9786611385606 1435653610 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Hollywood in the Neighborhood presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland-the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the growing national mass media, their essays chart how motion pictures so quickly and successfully moved into old opera houses and glittering new picture palaces on Main Streets across America.


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Menus for movieland : newspapers and the emergence of American film culture, 1913-1916
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ISBN: 9780520286771 0520286774 9780520286788 0520286782 9780520961883 0520961889 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. University of California Press

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"At the turn of the last century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer 'menus' by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their own daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors, exhibitors, and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film culture. Negotiating among national, regional, and local interests, it shaped fans' ephemeral experience of moviegoing, their repeated encounters with the fantasy worlds of 'movie land,' and their attractions to certain stories and stars. Moreover, in weekend pages and daily columns and film reviews, much of this was served up by women and consumed by women, including at least one teenager compiling a rare surviving scrapbook"-- Provided by publisher.


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Explorations in new cinema history : approaches and case studies.
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ISBN: 9781405199490 9781405199506 1405199504 Year: 2011 Publisher: Malden Wiley-Blackwell

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Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences, the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange. Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among others. Develops the original argument that the social history of cinema-going and of the experience of cinema should take precedence over production- and text-based analyses. Explores the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange, including patterns of popularity and taste, the role of individual movie theatres in creating and sustaining their audiences, and the commercial, political and legal aspects of film exhibition and distribution. Prompts readers to reassess their understanding of key periods of cinema history, opening up cinema studies to long-overdue conversations with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Presents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digital technology and geospatial information systems to provide illuminating insights in to the uses of cinema.

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Film --- Motion picture audiences. --- Motion pictures --- Motion picture theaters. --- Motion picture industry --- Cinéma --- Distribution des films --- Cinémas --- Distribution. --- History --- Publics --- Motion picture audiences --- Distribution --- Political aspects --- Law and legislation --- Histoire et critique --- Sociologie --- 798.2 --- filmbezoek --- filmcultuur --- filmgeschiedenis --- filmgoing (moviegoing) --- #SBIB:309H1313 --- #SBIB:309H1312 --- film, inleiding, hand- en leerboeken --- Geschiedenis en/of organisatie van het filmwezen: algemeen en per land (met inbegrip van de rol van het filmwezen in de ontwikkelingsproblematiek) --- Filmwezen: bedrijfseconomische aspecten, productie- en distributiestructuren --- Cinéma --- Cinémas --- Motion picture theaters --- Cinemas --- Movie theaters --- Moving-picture theaters --- Theaters, Motion picture --- Theaters --- Circulation of motion pictures --- Distribution of motion pictures --- Film distribution --- Film-making (Motion pictures) --- Filmmaking (Motion pictures) --- Motion picture circulation --- Motion picture distribution --- Movie-making --- Moviemaking --- Release of motion pictures --- Film industry (Motion pictures) --- Moving-picture industry --- Cultural industries --- Film audiences --- Filmgoers --- Moviegoers --- Moving-picture audiences --- Performing arts --- Release --- Audiences --- Sociologie. --- Distribution des films. --- Cinémas. --- Histoire et critique. --- Publics. --- Histoire du cinéma. --- Motion pictures - Distribution --- Motion pictures - Distribution - Political aspects --- Motion picture industry - Law and legislation --- Motion picture audiences - History

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