Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

The Optical Vacuum

Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture

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Produktbeschreibung

From the 1920s-1960s, American cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift: movie theaters were neutralized for immersive watching, in large part by architect and writer Benjamin Schlanger. The Optical Vacuum examines how Schlanger reformed both theater and spectator, demonstrating that the essence of film viewing can be found in theatrical space.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780190689360
• ISBN-10: 0190689366
• Artikelnr.: 51970198

Autorenporträt

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research focuses on spectatorship, exhibition, technology, and American film history, and she has published in various journals and books including Screen, Film History , Color and the Moving Image, World Picture, and 2ha.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Theater, the Film, and the Spectator
* Chapter One: Nostalgia for the Dark - Ben Schlanger and the Beginning
of Neutralization, 1920-1932
* Chapter Two: A Field of Light - Optics and the Demasked Screen,
1932-1952
* Chapter Three: A Mobile Gaze Through Time and Space: Neutralization
in the Era of Widescreen, 1950-1960
* Chapter Four: Cinephilia in Ruins: An Audience of the Elite,
1960-1970
* Coda
* Index