What thrilled our grandparents and great grandparents in cinemas across Scotland? This is the first scholarly work to document the cinema habits of early 20th-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers. He considers patterns of cinema-going and attendance levels, as well as changes in audience preferences for different genres, stars or national origins of films. The thematic chapters broaden out the discussion of cinema-going to consider the wider social and cultural impact of this early form of mass leisure. Trevor Griffiths' book is a major contribution to the growing body of work on the history and significance of British film. Trevor Griffiths is a senior lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor of A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). Cover image: Premiere of Huntingtower, 1928, Regent Picture House, Renfield Street, Glasgow. Courtesy Scottish Screen Archive at National Library of Scotland. Cover design: [insert logo file] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-3828-4 [please add in the white area above the barcode] Barcode
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