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基本説明
Explores the history, sociology and urban geograhy of the range of venues in which films have been shown in the course of film history.
Full Description
From the kinetoscope, used by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film. Exhibition, The Film Reader traces the emergence of a culture of moviegoing, exploring the range of venues in which films have been shown and following the fluctuating status of film and the continuning struggle over audiences.
Contents
Part I - Where the movies were: the nickelodeon theatre 1905-1914 - building an audience for the movies, Russell Merritt; another audience - black movie-going from 1907-1916, Gregory Waller; nickelodeon nomenclature - the urban picture palaces, Kathryn Helgesen Fuller; the movie palace and the theatrical sources of its architectural style, Charlotte Herzog; discourses on art house in the 1950s, Barbara Wilinsky; the K-Mart audience at the mall movies, William Paul. Part 2 - The business of exhibition: the rise of national theatre chains - Balaban and Katz postscript, Douglas Gregory; the relationship between motion picture distribution and exhibition - an analysis of the effects of anti-blind bidding legislation, Suzanne I. Schiller; where the drive-in fits into the movie industry, Anthony Downs; the evolution of the motion picture theatre business in the 1980s, Thomas Guback. Part 3 - The meanings of the exhibition site, Thomas Guback; an acre of seats in a garden of dreams - the stage moves to the screen, Ben M. Hall; the "theatre man" and "the girl in the box office", Ina Rae Hark; the multiplex - the modern American motion picture theatre as message, Gary Edgerton, film and society - public rituals and private space, Dudley Andrew; spectatorial bibliography, Anne Friedberg.