Going to the Movies : Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema Hardback
Edited by Richard (Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders Unive Maltby, Melvyn Stokes, Robert C. Allen
Part of the Exeter Studies in Film History series
Hardback
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This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema.
It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa. Going to the Movies studies the social and cultural history of movie audiences.
Ranging broadly across historical time and geographical place, it analyses the role of movie theatres in local communities, the links between film and other entertainment media, non-theatrical exhibition and trends arising from the globalisation of audiences.
There is an emphasis on movie-going outside the American North-East, and several chapters analyse the complexities of race and race formation in relation to cinema attendance
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:University of Exeter Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2007
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- ISBN:9780859898119
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages
- Publisher:University of Exeter Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859898119