Now playing : early moviegoing and the regulation of fun /

"Using Toronto as a case study, and focusing on a period from the opening of the first theaters showcasing moving pictures in 1906 to the end of World War I, Now Playing locates the origins of our present-day mass audience in the culture of cities. Paul S. Moore examines the emergence of everyd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Paul S., 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Colección:SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Temas:
Motion picture audiences > Canada.
Motion picture audiences > United States.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > Canada.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
Motion picture theaters > Canada.
Motion picture theaters > United States.
Cinéma > Publics > Canada.
Cinéma > Publics > États-Unis.
Cinéma > Aspect social > Canada.
Cinéma > Aspect social > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Motion picture audiences
Motion picture theaters
Motion pictures > Social aspects
Canada
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Early moviegoing and the regulation of fun
  • Rendezvous for particular people: The local roots of mass culture
  • Socially combustible: Panicky people and flammable films
  • Showmanship in formation: Incorporating the civic work of competition
  • Senseless censors and startling deeds: From police beat to bureaucracy
  • Everybody's going: Introducting the mass audience to itself
  • Conclusion: Wartime filmgoing as citizenship.

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