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When Movies Were Theater : Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film / William Paul.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and Culture SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 71 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231176569
  • 9780231541374
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/095693 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S668 P38 2016
  • PN1995.9.S668P38
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Art of the Theater -- 1. Making Movies Fit -- 2. Store Theaters: A Radical Break -- 3. Palatial Architecture, Democratized Audience -- 4. Elite Taste in a Mass Medium -- 5. Uncanny Theater -- 6. The Architectural Screen -- Conclusion: Ontological Fade-Out -- Appendix 1: Stage Shows and Double Features in Select Markets Outside New York City -- Appendix 2: Feature Films Based on Theatrical Sources, 1914-2011 -- Appendix 3: Filmography -- Appendix 4: List of Theaters -- Abbreviations Used for Citations in Notes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Art of the Theater -- 1. Making Movies Fit -- 2. Store Theaters: A Radical Break -- 3. Palatial Architecture, Democratized Audience -- 4. Elite Taste in a Mass Medium -- 5. Uncanny Theater -- 6. The Architectural Screen -- Conclusion: Ontological Fade-Out -- Appendix 1: Stage Shows and Double Features in Select Markets Outside New York City -- Appendix 2: Feature Films Based on Theatrical Sources, 1914-2011 -- Appendix 3: Filmography -- Appendix 4: List of Theaters -- Abbreviations Used for Citations in Notes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)