Melnick American Showman

Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908–1935
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-50425-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Melnick, Ross

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Roxy and Silent Film Exhibition
1. A New Art for a New Art Form (1908–1913)
2. Broadway Melody (1913–1917)
3. The Movie House as Recruiting Center (1917–1918)
4. "The Man Who Gave the Movies a College Education" (1919–1922)
Part 2. Roxy and the Emergence of Convergence
5. A Capitol Idea (1922–1925)
6. "It's the Roxy and I'm Roxy" (1925–1927)
7. It's All Playing in Sheboygan (1928–1931)
8. The Prologue Is Past (1931–1936)
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ross Melnick is assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in cinema and media studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Emory University. He has worked as a curator at the Museum of the Moving Image and in marketing for Loews Cineplex, Miramax, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and DreamWorks, and in film distribution for Sony Pictures. With Andreas Fuchs, he is the coauthor of Cinema Treasures.