{"product_id":"going-to-the-movies-hollywood-and-the-social-experience-of-cinema-exeter-studies-in-film-history-9780859898119","title":"Going to the Movies Hollywood and the Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘\u003cem\u003eGoing to the Movies\u003c\/em\u003e provides a fascinating range of consistently well-written chapters by a good selection of the best film historians on both sides of the Atlantic.  With 68 pages of detailed references and an excellent index, this book is highly recommended for film research libraries and those with a serious interest in historical movie-going studies.’  (Media International Australia, No. 129, November 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘this excellent collection’  (Stuart Hanson, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction, Richard Maltby and Melvyn Stokes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Studies of Local Cinema Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e1. Race, Religion, and Rusticity: Relocating U. S. Film History, Robert C. Allen\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e2. Tri-racial Theaters in Robeson County, North Carolina (1896-1940), Christopher J. McKenna\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e3. The White in the Race Movie Audience, Jane Gaines\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e4. Sundays in Norfolk: Toward a Protestant Utopia Through Film Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910-1920, Terry Lindvall, C. S. Lewis\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e5. Patchwork Maps of Movie-Going, 1911-1913, Richard Abel, Robert Altman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e6. Leshono habo' bimuving piktshurs (Next year at the Moving Pictures): Cinema and social change in the Jewish immigrant community, Judith Thissen\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e7. 'Four Hours of Hootin' and Hollerin\": Moviegoing and Everyday Life Outside the Movie Palace, Jeffrey Klenotic\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e8. Cinema-going in the United States in the mid-1930s: A Study Based on the Variety Dataset, Mark Glancy and John Sedgwick\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e9. Race Houses, Jim Crow Roosts, and Lily White Palaces: desegregating the Motion Picture Theater, Thomas Doherty\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart II: Other Cinema: Alternatives to Theatrical Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e10. The Reel of the Month Club: 16mm Projectors, Home Theaters and Film Libraries in the 19320s, Haidee Wasson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e11. Early Art Cinema in the U.S.: Symon Gould and the Little Cinema Movement of the 1920s, Anne Morey\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e12. Free Talking Picture - Every Farmer is Welcome: Non-theatrical Film and Everyday Life in Rural America during the 1930s, Gregory A. Waller\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e13. Cinema's Shadow: Reconsidering Non-Theatrical Exhibition, Barbara Klinger\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart III: Hollywood Movies in Broader Perspective: Audiences at Home and Abroad\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e14. Changing Images of Movie Audiences, Richard Butsch\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e15. 'Healthy Films from America': The emergence of a Catholic film mass movement in Belgium and the realm of Hollywood, 1928-1939, Daniel Biltereyst\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e16. The child audience and the 'horrific' film in 1930s Britain, Annette Kuhn\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e17. Hollywood in Vernacular: Translation and Cross-Cultural Reception of American Films in Turkey, Ahmet Gurata\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e18. Cowboy Modern: African Audiences, Hollywood Films, and Visions of the West, Charles Ambler\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e19. 'Opening Everywhere': Multiplexes and the Speed of Cinema Culture, Charles R. Acland\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e20. 'Cinema Comes to Life at the Cornerhouse, Nottingham': 'American' Exhibition, Local Politics and Global Culture in the Construction of the Urban Entertainment Centre, Mark Jancovich\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359249531223,"sku":"9780859898119","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/going-to-the-movies-hollywood-and-the-social-experience-of-cinema-exeter-studies-in-film-history-9780859898119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}