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- Book Title
- Perils of Moviegoing in America 1896-1950
- ISBN
- 9781441136107
- Subject Area
- Performing Arts, History
- Publication Name
- Perils of Moviegoing in America : 1896-1950
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Film / General, United States / 20th Century, Film / History & Criticism
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 15.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
144113610X
ISBN-13
9781441136107
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038832989
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Publication Name
Perils of Moviegoing in America : 1896-1950
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, United States / 20th Century, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-025773
Reviews
Rhodes' superbly researched work brings excitedly to life - and death - the many risks and rewards of American moviegoing in the first parts of the last century. Perils offers a highly unique contribution to the ongoing historiographic reworking of the role of the movie theater in urban modernity. -- Michael Aronson, author of Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929, and Associate Director of Cinema Studies, University of Oregon
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Original Language
English
Dewey Decimal
302.23/43
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Conflagration Chapter Two: Thieves Among Us Chapter Three: It's Catching Chapter Four: Bombs Away Chapter Five: The Devil's Apothecary Shops Chapter Six: The Sunday Blues Chapter Seven: Something for Nothing Bibliography
Synopsis
During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined ("movie eyestrain"). Audiences also confronted an array of perceived moral dangers. Blue Laws prohibited Sunday film screenings, though theatres ignored them in many areas, sometimes resulting in the arrests of entire audiences. Movie theatre lotteries became another problem, condemned by politicians and clergymen throughout America for being immoral gambling. The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950 provides the first history of the many threats that faced film audiences, threats which claimed hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. >, Recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema., During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined ("movie eyestrain"). Audiences also confronted an array of perceived moral dangers. Blue Laws prohibited Sunday film screenings, though theatres ignored them in many areas, sometimes resulting in the arrests of entire audiences. Movie theatre lotteries became another problem, condemned by politicians and clergymen throughout America for being immoral gambling. The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950 provides the first history of the many threats that faced film audiences, threats which claimed hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.
LC Classification Number
PN1995.9.A8R57 2011
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