Hollywood in the neighborhood historical case studies of local moviegoing

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General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

Contents

Researching and writing the history of local moviegoing / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley and George Potamianos -- Decentering historical audience studies: a modest proposal / Robert C. Allen -- The itinerant movie show and the development of the film industry / Calvin Pryluck -- Early film exhibition in Wilmington, North Carolina / Anne Morey -- Building movie audiences in Placerville, California, 1908-1915 / George Potamianos -- Cinema virtue, cinema vice: race, religion, and film exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1908-1922 / Terry Lindvall -- The movies in a "not so visible place": Des Moines, Iowa, 1911-1914 / Richard Abel -- Digging the finest potatoes from their acre: government film exhibition in rural Ontario, 1917-1934 / Charles Tepperman -- At the movies in the "biggest little city in Wisconsin" / Leslie Midkiff DeBauche -- Imagining and promoting the small- town theater / Gregory A. Waller -- "What the picture did for me": small town exhibitors' strategies for surviving the Great Depression / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley -- "Something for nothing": bank night and the refashioning of the American dream / Paige Reynolds -- Bad sound and sticky floors: an ethnographic look at the symbolic value of historic small-town movie theaters / Kevin Corbett -- Conclusion: When theory hits the road / Ronald G. Walters

Extended title: Hollywood in the neighborhood historical case studies of local moviegoing / edited by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley

Motion pictures Motion picture audiences Motion picture theaters

associated with: Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies