Screen traffic : movies, multiplexes, and global culture /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Acland, Charles R., 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, ©2003.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Kino
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures > Distribution.
Culture in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Publics.
Distribution des films.
Culture au cinéma.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Culture in motion pictures
Motion picture audiences
Motion pictures > Distribution
Filmverleih
Publikum
Filmindustrie.
Publiek.
Internationalisatie.
Distributie.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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