Exhibition, The Film Reader

Herausgeber: Hark, Ina Rae

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the kinetoscope to the Movie Palaces of Hollywood's golden age, to today's multiplexes, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film history. "Exhibition, The Film Reader" traces the emergence of a culture of movie going, exploring the range of venues in which films have been shown, and following the fluctuating fortunes of film and its continuing struggle to win audiences. Contributors explore the meanings conveyed to spectators through different exhibition sites and practices, raises key questions of distribution, access and consumption, and examines the shifting ethnic, gender and economic make-up of audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415235181
• ISBN-10: 0415235189
• Artikelnr.: 21926147

Autorenporträt

Ina Rae Hark is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. She is co-editor with Steven Cohan of The Road Movie Book (Routledge 1997) and Screening the Male (Routldge 1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Where the Movies Were - 1. Russell
Merritt The Nickelodeon Theater 1905-1914: Building an Audience for the
Movies 2. Gregory Waller Another Audience: Black Moviegoing from 1907-1916
3. Kathryn Helgesen Fuller Nickelodeon Nomenclature: The Urban Picture
Palace's 4. Charlotte Herzog The Movie Palace and the Theatrical Sources of
Its Architectural Style 5. Barbara Wilinsky Discourses on Art House in the
1950s 6. William Paul The K-Mart Audience at the Mall Movies Part II: The
Business of Exhibition 7. Douglas Gregory The Rise of National Theatre
Chains - Balaban & Katz Postscript 8. Suzanne I. Schiller The Relationship
Between Motion Picture Distribution and Exhibition: an Analysis of the
Effects of Anti-Blind Bidding Legislation 9. Anthony Downs Where the
Drive-In Fits into the Movie Industry 10. Thomas Guback The Evolution of
the Motion Picture Theater Business in the 1980s Part III: The Meanings of
the Exhibition Site - 11. Ben M. Hall An Acre of Seats in a Garden of
Dreams: The Stage Moves to the Screen 12. Ina Rae Hark The 'Theater Man'
and 'The Girl in the Box Office' 13. Gary Edgerton The Multiplex: the
Modern American Motion Picture Theater as Message 14. Dudley Andrew Film
and Society: Public Rituals and Private Space 15. Anne Friedberg
Spectatorial Bibliography.