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Hollywood in the neighborhood: historical case studies of local moviegoing

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