Going to the movies: Hollywood and the social experience of cinema

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This book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small-town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa.;Front Cover; Half Title; Exeter Studies in Film History; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Studies of Local Cinema Exhibition; Chapter 1: Race, Region, and Rusticity: Relocating U.S. Film History; Chapter 2: Tri-racial Theaters in Robeson County, North Carolina,1896-1940; Chapter 3: The White in the Race Movie Audience; Chapter 4: Sundays in Norfolk: Toward a Protestant Utopia Through Film Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910-1920; Chapter 5: Patchwork Maps of Moviegoing, 1911-1913. Front Cover Half Title Exeter Studies in Film History Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Studies of Local Cinema Exhibition Chapter 1: Race, Region, and Rusticity: Relocating U.S. Film History Chapter 2: Tri-racial Theaters in Robeson County, North Carolina,1896-1940 Chapter 3: The White in the Race Movie Audience Chapter 4: Sundays in Norfolk: Toward a Protestant Utopia Through Film Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910-1920 Chapter 5: Patchwork Maps of Moviegoing, 1911-1913. Chapter 6: Next Year at the Moving Pictures: Cinema and Social Change in the Jewish Immigrant CommunityChapter 7: 'Four Hours of Hootin' and Hollerin'': Moviegoing and Everyday Life Outside the Movie Palace Chapter 8: Cinemagoing in the United States in the mid-1930s: A Study Based on the Variety Dataset Chapter 9: Race Houses, Jim Crow Roosts, and Lily White Palaces: Desegregating the Motion Picture Theater Part II: Other Cinema: Alternatives to Theatrical Exhibition Chapter 10: The Reel of the Month Club: 16mm Projectors, Home Theaters and Film Libraries in the 1920s. Chapter 11: Early Art Cinema in the U.S.: Symon Gould and the Little Cinema Movement of the 1920sChapter 12: Free Talking Picture-Every Farmer is Welcome: Nontheatrical Film and Everyday Life in Rural America during the 1930s Chapter 13: Cinema's Shadow: Reconsidering Non-theatrical Exhibition Part III: Hollywood Movies in Broader Perspective: Audiences at Home and Abroad Chapter 14: Changing Images of Movie Audiences Chapter 15: 'Healthy Films from America': The Emergence of a Catholic Film Mass Movement in Belgium and the Realm of Hollywood, 1928-1939. Chapter 16: The Child Audience and the 'Horrific' Film in 1930s BritainChapter 17: Hollywood in Vernacular: Translation and Cross-cultural Reception of American Films in Turkey Chapter 18: Cowboy Modern: African Audiences, Hollywood Films, and Visions of the West Chapter 19: 'Opening Everywhere': Multiplexes and the Speed of Cinema Culture Chapter 20: 'Cinema Comes to Life at the Cornerhouse, Nottingham': 'American' Exhibition, Local Politics and Global Culture in the Construction of the Urban Entertainment Centre Notes Index Back Cover.