Perils of Moviegoing in America
«The Perils of Moviegoing in America reclaims a heretofore lost chapter of film history, meticulously detailing the dangers faced by early moving picture audiences. --David Stenn, author of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild»
This title recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema. During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Les mer
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"The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950" provides the first history of the many threats that faced film audiences, threats which claimed hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 384
- ISBN
- 9781441110190
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«The Perils of Moviegoing in America reclaims a heretofore lost chapter of film history, meticulously detailing the dangers faced by early moving picture audiences. --David Stenn, author of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild»
«Gary Rhodes provides the fortunate reader with a rigorously researched and compelling history, which systematically unveils the sensational aspects of moviegoing that have been left at the periphery of film studies. A mesmerizing page turner. --Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of American Cinema»
«Completely original. --Kevin Brownlow, film historian and filmmaker»
«Featured on Turner Classic Movies website. http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=454632&name=The-Perils-of-Moviegoing-in-America-1896-1950»
«Rhodes' superbly researched work brings excitedly to life - and death - the many risks and rewards of American moviegoing in the first parts of the last century. Perils offers a highly unique contribution to the ongoing historiographic reworking of the role of the movie theater in urban modernity. -- Michael Aronson, author of Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929, and Associate Director of Cinema Studies, University of Oregon»