Umfang:
Online-Ressource (276 p)
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23 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520940222
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9781281385604
Inhalt:
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 loca
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index
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CONTENTS; Part I: Introduction Setting the Contexts; 1.Introduction: Researching and Writing the History of Local Moviegoing; 2.Decentering Historical Audience Studies:A Modest Proposal; Part II: Origins Case Studies; 3.The Itinerant Movie Show and the Development of the Film Industry; 4.Early Film Exhibition in Wilmington, North Carolina; 5.Building Movie Audiences in Placerville, California, 1908-1915; 6.Cinema Virtue, Cinema Vice: Race, Religion, and Film Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1908-1922; Part III: Integration and Variations Case Studies
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7.The Movies in a "Not So Visible Place": Des Moines, Iowa, 1911-19148.Digging the Finest Potatoes from Their Acre: Government Film Exhibition in Rural Ontario, 1917-1934; 9.At the Movies in the "Biggest Little City in Wisconsin"; Part IV: Maturity and Crisis in the 1930s Case Studies; 10.Imagining and Promoting the Small-Town Theater; 11."What the Picture Did for Me": Small-Town Exhibitors' Strategies for Surviving the Great Depression; 12."Something for Nothing": Bank Night and the Refashioning of the American Dream; Part V: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
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13.Bad Sound and Sticky Floors: An Ethnographic Look at the Symbolic Value of Historic Small-Town Movie Theaters14.Conclusion: When Theory Hits the Road; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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ISBN 0520249739
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ISBN 0520230671
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hollywood in the Neighborhood Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
