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Screen traffic : movies, multiplexes, and global culture /

In Screen Traffic, Charles R. Acland examines how, since the mid-1980s, the U.S. commercial movie business has altered conceptions of moviegoing both within the industry and among audiences. He shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from international audiences and from the anci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Acland, Charles R., 1963- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2003.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Global audiences and the current cinema
  • 2. Traveling cultures, mutating commodities
  • 3. Matinees, summers, and the practice of cinemagoing
  • 4. Crisis and settlement in exhibition and distribution
  • 5. "Here come the megaplexes"
  • 6. Zones and speeds of international cinematic life
  • 7. Northern screens
  • 8. The miniaturization of the theme park, or after the "death" of cinema
  • 9. Cinemagoing as "felt internationalism"
  • - Appendices:
  • 1. Screens per million population
  • 2. World screen count
  • 3. National average cinema admissions per person (annual)
  • 4. Multiplexing in Europe
  • 5. MPAA's goals for digital cinemas
  • 6. Existing digital cinemas, 2000
  • 7. Digital movies released for DLP projectors.