Hanson From silent screen to multi-screen

A history of cinema exhibition in Britain since 1896
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4144-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Popular Culture

The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening – the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 – through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanson, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 From the fairground to the picture palace: 1896 – 1913
2 Post-war consolidation, the coming of sound and Hollywood: 1913 – 1930
3 Cinema as mass entertainment: 1930 – 1950
4 From ‘golden age’ to the beginnings of decline: 1950 – 1960
5 Sub-dividing and falling, and the lessons from the United States: 1960s – 1984
6 The multiplex revolution: 1985 – present
7 The future for cinema exhibition in the digital age
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Über Autor(innen)

Hanson Stuart:
Stuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, LeicesterStuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester