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Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition

Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition Paperback / softback - 2001

by Gregory A. Waller

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Paperback / softback. New. This diverse collection of material about the history of film exhibition in the United States documents and enlivens the history of moviegoing, film exhibition practices, business policies, and programming strategies. It is a comprehensive study of the cultural history of American film.
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  • Title Moviegoing in America: A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition
  • Author Gregory A. Waller
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Malden, MA
  • Date 2001-12-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780631225928
  • ISBN 9780631225928 / 0631225927
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.56 x 6.76 x 0.79 in (24.28 x 17.17 x 2.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - United States - History, Motion picture theaters - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001035004
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

First line

Although motion pictures were occasionally projected onto a screen in the United States during 1895, by the Lathams' eidoloscope and C.

From the rear cover

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.

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).