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Hollywood in the neighborhood: historical case studies of local moviegoing
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
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Frontmatter
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Part I: Introduction
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1. Introduction: Researching and Writing the History of Local Moviegoing (Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley and George Potamianos, page 3)
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2. Decentering Historical Audience Studies: A Modest Proposal (Robert C. Allen, page 20)
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Part II: Origins
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3. The Itinerant Movie Show and the Development of the Film Industry (Calvin Pryluck, page 37)
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4. Early Film Exhibition in Wilmington, North Carolina (Anne Morey, page 53)
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5. Building Movie Audiences in Placerville, California, 1908-1915 (George Potamianos, page 75)
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6. Cinema Virtue, Cinema Vice: Race, Religion, and Film Exhibition in Norfolk, Virginia, 1908-1922 (Terry Lindvall, page 91)
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Part III: Integration and Variations
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7. The Movies in a "Not So Visible Place": Des Moines, Iowa, 1911-1914 (Richard Abel, page 107)
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8. Digging the Finest Potatoes from Their Acre: Government Film Exhibition in Rural Ontario, 1917-1934 (Charles Tepperman, page 130)
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9. At the Movies in the "Biggest Little City in Wisconsin" (Leslie Midkiff DeBauche, page 149)
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Part IV: Maturity and Crisis in the 1930s
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10. Imagining and Promoting the Small-Town Theater (Gregory A. Waller, page 169)
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11. "What the Picture Did for Me": Small-Town Exhibitors' Strategies for Surviving the Great Depression (Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley, page 186)
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12. "Something for Nothing": Bank Night and the Refashioning of the American Dream (Paige Reynolds, page 208)
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Part V: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
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13. Bad Sound and Sticky Floors: An Ethnographic Look at the Symbolic Value of Historic Small-Town Movie Theaters (Kevin Corbett, page 233)
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14. Conclusion: When Theory Hits the Road (Ronald G. Walters, page 250)
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Contributors (page 263)
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Selected Bibliography (page 267)
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Index (page 271)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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LEO | 42.5 (Oct. 2009): 466-467 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/leonardo/v042/42.5.baetens01.html |
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Published: c2008
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520230675 (hardcover)
- 9780520249738 (paper)
- 9780520940222 (ebook)