When movies were theater : architecture, exhibition, and the evolution of American film /
There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events onscreen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging f...
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Columbia University Press
2016.
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| Շարք: | Film and culture.
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| Առցանց հասանելիություն: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/paul17656 |
Բովանդակություն:
- Introduction: an art of the theater
- Making movies fit
- Store theaters: a radical break
- Palatial architecture, democratized audience
- Elite taste in a mass medium
- Uncanny theater
- The architectural screen
- Conclusion: Ontological fade-out
- Appendix 1: Stage shows and double features in select markets outside New York City
- Appendix 2: Feature films based on theatrical sources, 1914-2011
- Abbreviations used for citations in notes.