Stuart Hanson

From silent screen to multi-screen

A history of cinema exhibition in Britain since 1896

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumière Brothers' showing of their Cinématographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780719069444
• ISBN-10: 0719069440
• Artikelnr.: 22720813

Autorenporträt

Stuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 From the fairground to the picture palace: 1896
1913 2 Post
war consolidation, the coming of sound and Hollywood: 1913
1930 3 Cinema as mass entertainment: 1930
1950 4 From 'golden age' to the beginnings of decline: 1950
1960 5 Sub
dividing and falling, and the lessons from the United States: 1960s
1984 6 The multiplex revolution: 1985
present 7 The future for cinema exhibition in the digital age Select bibliography