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What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen? This scholarly work intends to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history.

Table of Contents
1: The Early Exhibition of Film in Scotland; 2: The Cinema and Morality; 3: Silent Cinema in Scotland: from the First World War to the Coming of Sound; 4: A Scottish Screen: Film Production in Scotland; 5: The Early Sound Era: From The Singing Fool to the Second World War; 6: A Wider Cinema Culture; 7: To the Peak and Beyond: Scottish Cinema in Wartime and Austerity.; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/07/2012
      ISBN13: 9780748638284, 978-0748638284
      ISBN10: 0748638288
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen? This scholarly work intends to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history.

      Table of Contents
      1: The Early Exhibition of Film in Scotland; 2: The Cinema and Morality; 3: Silent Cinema in Scotland: from the First World War to the Coming of Sound; 4: A Scottish Screen: Film Production in Scotland; 5: The Early Sound Era: From The Singing Fool to the Second World War; 6: A Wider Cinema Culture; 7: To the Peak and Beyond: Scottish Cinema in Wartime and Austerity.; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

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