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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paul, William, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Colección:Film and culture.
Temas:
Space and time in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and architecture.
Motion picture theaters.
Theater architecture.
Espace et temps au cinéma.
Cinéma et architecture.
Architecture des théâtres.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion picture theaters
Motion pictures and architecture
Space and time in motion pictures
Theater architecture
Kino
Architektur
Filmvorführung
USA
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Performing arts
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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