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Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 538 p.) : , ill.

ISBN: 9780231504256 (ebook) :

Series Statement: Film and culture

Content: This title considers the multifaceted career of Samuel 'Roxy' Rothafel (1882-1936), who is regularly cited as one of the twelve most important figures in the history of film and radio. It examines his role as the key purveyor of a new film exhibition aesthetic that appropriated legitimate theatre, opera, ballet, and classical music to attract multi-class audiences. It details how Roxy built an influential and prolific career as a film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theatre manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780231159050

Language: English

URL: Columbia scholarship online

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/meln15904

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ISBN: 9780231504256

Series Statement: Film and Culture Series

Content: 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. The first book devoted to Rothafel's multifaceted career, American Showman examines his role as the key purveyor of a new film exhibition aesthetic that appropriated legitimate theater, opera, ballet, and classical music to attract multi-class audiences. Roxy scored motion pictures, produced enormous stage shows, managed many of New York's most important movie houses, directed and/or edited propaganda films for the American war effort, produced short and feature-length films, exhibited foreign, documentary, independent, and avant-garde motion pictures, and expanded the conception of mainstream, commercial cinema. He was also one of the chief creators of the radio variety program, pioneering radio broadcasting, promotions, and tours.The producers and promoters of distinct themes and styles, showmen like Roxy profoundly remade the moviegoing experience, turning the deluxe motion picture theater into a venue for exhibiting and producing live and recorded entertainment. Roxy's interest in media convergence also reflects a larger moment in which the entertain

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , PART ONE. ROXY AND SILENT FILM EXHIBITION -- , 1. A New Art for a New Art Form (1908–1913) -- , 2. Broadway Melody (1913–1917) -- , 3. The Movie House as Recruiting Center (1917–1918) -- , 4. “The Man Who Gave the Movies a College Education” (1919–1922) -- , PART TWO. ROXY AND THE EMERGENCE OF CONVERGENCE -- , 5. A Capitol Idea (1922–1925) -- , 6. “It’s the Roxy and I’m Roxy” (1925–1927) -- , 7. It’s All Playing in Sheboygan (1928–1931) -- , 8. The Prologue Is Past (1931–1936) -- , Afterword -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , Film and Culture

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/meln15904

URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/meln15904