Charles R. Acland is Associate Professor of Communications Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. He is the author of Youth, Murder, Spectacle: The Cultural Politics of “Youth in Crisis” and coeditor of Harold Innis in the New Century: Reflections and Refractions.
List of Tables and Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
I. Theorizing Contemporary Cinemagoing
1. Global Alliances and the Current Cinema 3
2. Traveling Cultures, Mutating Commodities 23
3. Matinees, Summers, and the Practice of Cinemagoing 45
II. Structures of Cinematic Experience
4. Crisis and Settlement in Exhibition and Distribution 85
5. "Here Come the Megaplexes" 107
6. Zones and Speeds of International Cinematic Life 130
7. Northern Screens 163
8. The Miniaturization of the Theme Park, or After the "Death" of Cinema
196
9. Cinemagoing as "Felt Internationalism" 229
Appendices
1. Screens per Million Population 247
2. World Screen Count 250
3. National Average Cinema Admissions per Person (annual) 253
4. Multiplexing in Europe 256
5. MPAA's Goals for Digital Cinema 257
6. Existing Digital Cinemas, 2000 259
7. Digital Movies Released for DLP Projectors 261
Notes 263
Bibliography 299
Index 325
