Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925
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Perhaps foremost among these insights is the book's powerful reminder that movie theatres during this period were environments for a rich multimedia and intermedial experience where performers on stage were just as important as those on the screen. This work will be of great value to students and scholars of silent cinema history, theatre history, urban history and Detroit history, and also has much to offer those interested in the history of newspapers, advertising and promotion.
» Jeffrey Klenotic, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Indiana University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 308
- ISBN
- 9780253046451
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«
Perhaps foremost among these insights is the book's powerful reminder that movie theatres during this period were environments for a rich multimedia and intermedial experience where performers on stage were just as important as those on the screen. This work will be of great value to students and scholars of silent cinema history, theatre history, urban history and Detroit history, and also has much to offer those interested in the history of newspapers, advertising and promotion.
» Jeffrey Klenotic, Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film