Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Moviegoing in America catalogs the social and cultural change that has attended America's favorite pastime from the days of the nickelodeon to the dominance of the multiplex. Bringing together an impressive range of historical scholarship, Gregory A. Waller charts the evolution of film exhibition and reception as a function of changing patterns of American community, identity, and consumption.
Pairing notable current research with extensive primary material - drawn from trade accounts, popular magazines, and exhibitor handbooks - Moviegoing in America deepens our understanding of the role of film in everyday life by exploring the movie theater as commercial venue, physical environment, public sphere, community centerpiece, and all-important site where audiences experience the movies and experience themselves as an audience.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
About the Author
Gregory A. Waller is Professor and Chair of the Department of English, University of Kentucky. He is author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 (1995), which was awarded the Theater Library Association Award and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award of the Society for Cinema Studies for outstanding scholarship in film and media studies. The author's other publications include American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film (1987) and The Living and the Undead: From Stoker's 'Dracula' to Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' (1986).
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition,Gregory A. Waller,Blackwell Publishers,0631225927,Cinema/Film: Book,Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Film & Video - Reference,History,Motion picture theaters,Motion pictures,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,United States
Fun Book:
Recommended Books