Going to the Movies

Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-85989-812-6
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 749 g

Reihe: Exeter Studies in Film History

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.

Going to the Movies studies the social and cultural history of movie audiences. Ranging broadly across historical time and geographical place, it analyses the role of movie theatres in local communities, the links between film and other entertainment media, non-theatrical exhibition and trends arising from the globalisation of audiences. There is an emphasis on movie-going outside the American North-East, and several chapters analyse the complexities of race and race formation in relation to cinema attendance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maltby, Richard

Maltby, Richard, Prof.

Stokes, Melvyn

Stokes, Melvyn, Dr.

Allen, Robert C.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Abel, Richard

Acland, Charles R.

Ambler, Charles

Biltereyst, Daniel

Butsch, Richard

Doherty, Thomas

Gaines, Jane M.

Glancy, Mark

Gürata, Ahmet

Jancovich, Mark

Kilinger, Barbara

Klenotic, Jeffery

Kuhn, Annette

Lindvall, Terry

McKenna, Christopher J.

Morey, Anne

Sedgwick, John

Thissen, Judith

Waller, Gregory A.

Wasson, Haidee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Richard Maltby and Melvyn Stokes

Part 1: Studies of Local Cinema Exhibition

1. Race, Religion, and Rusticity: Relocating U. S. Film History, Robert C. Allen

2. Tri-racial Theaters in Robeson County, North Carolina (1896-1940), Christopher J. McKenna

3. The White in the Race Movie Audience, Jane Gaines

4. Sundays in Norfolk: Toward a Protestant Utopia Through Film Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910-1920, Terry Lindvall, C. S. Lewis

5. Patchwork Maps of Movie-Going, 1911-1913, Richard Abel, Robert Altman

6. Leshono habo' bimuving piktshurs (Next year at the Moving Pictures): Cinema and social change in the Jewish immigrant community, Judith Thissen

7. 'Four Hours of Hootin' and Hollerin": Moviegoing and Everyday Life Outside the Movie Palace, Jeffrey Klenotic

8. Cinema-going in the United States in the mid-1930s: A Study Based on the Variety Dataset, Mark Glancy and John Sedgwick

9. Race Houses, Jim Crow Roosts, and Lily White Palaces: desegregating the Motion Picture Theater, Thomas Doherty

Part II: Other Cinema: Alternatives to Theatrical Exhibition

10. The Reel of the Month Club: 16mm Projectors, Home Theaters and Film Libraries in the 19320s, Haidee Wasson

11. Early Art Cinema in the U.S.: Symon Gould and the Little Cinema Movement of the 1920s, Anne Morey

12. Free Talking Picture - Every Farmer is Welcome: Non-theatrical Film and Everyday Life in Rural America during the 1930s, Gregory A. Waller

13. Cinema's Shadow: Reconsidering Non-Theatrical Exhibition, Barbara Klinger

Part III: Hollywood Movies in Broader Perspective: Audiences at Home and Abroad

14. Changing Images of Movie Audiences, Richard Butsch

15. 'Healthy Films from America': The emergence of a Catholic film mass movement in Belgium and the realm of Hollywood, 1928-1939, Daniel Biltereyst

16. The child audience and the 'horrific' film in 1930s Britain, Annette Kuhn

17. Hollywood in Vernacular: Translation and Cross-Cultural Reception of American Films in Turkey, Ahmet Gurata

18. Cowboy Modern: African Audiences, Hollywood Films, and Visions of the West, Charles Ambler

19. 'Opening Everywhere': Multiplexes and the Speed of Cinema Culture, Charles R. Acland

20. 'Cinema Comes to Life at the Cornerhouse, Nottingham': 'American' Exhibition, Local Politics and Global Culture in the Construction of the Urban Entertainment Centre, Mark Jancovich

Über Autor(innen)

Maltby, Richard, Prof.
Richard Maltby is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, South Australia. He moved to Flinders from the UK, where he established the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter, before becoming Research Professor in Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.

His publications include Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (Routledge, 2011), Hollywood Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell), Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century (Harrap).  ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939, co-edited with Andrew Higson (UEP 1999), was winner of the prestigious Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000.

He is a Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History.

Biltereyst, Daniel
Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the (co-)editor of several volumes on cinema audiences and censorship. In 2020 he published a monograph on the history of film/cinema censorship in Belgium, Verboden Beelden, and made a documentary with Bruno Mestdagh on film cuttings (Ongezien/invisible, 2020, Cinematek).

Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, South Australia. His publications include Hollywood Cinema, Dreams for Sale: Popular Culture in the Twentieth Century and ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’: Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939, which won the Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000.

Melvyn Stokes teaches at University College London, where he organises the annual Commonwealth Fund Conference on American History. His edited books include Race and Class in the American South since 1890, The Market Revolution in America, and The State of U. S. History.

Robert C. Allen is Professor of American Studies, History, and Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture, which was awarded the Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award. He is the co-author with Douglas Gomery of Film History: Theory and Practice, and the editor of two editions of Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism.