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Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing
Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (Ed.)
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Description for Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing
Paperback. Presents a picture of how movies entered the American heartland. This book examines the social and cultural changes this form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Editor(s): Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. Num Pages: 290 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
"Hollywood in the Neighborhood" presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland - the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the ... Read more
"Hollywood in the Neighborhood" presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland - the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520249738
SKU
V9780520249738
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About Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (Ed.)
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Communication Department at Georgia State University. She is author of At the Picture Show: Small Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture among other books.
Reviews for Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing
"Virtually every essay is empirical, detailed, and fully documented... This volume is a rarity
fully, sometimes stolidly, fact based: film theory with its feet planted firmly on the ground." Choice "This is a valuable contribution to current debates ... about film exhibition ... [and] film history as a whole." Screening The Past
fully, sometimes stolidly, fact based: film theory with its feet planted firmly on the ground." Choice "This is a valuable contribution to current debates ... about film exhibition ... [and] film history as a whole." Screening The Past