Hollywood in the Neighborhood Historical Case Studies of Local Moviegoing

Hollywood in the Neighborhood presents a vivid new picture of how movies entered the American heartland-the thousands of smaller cities, towns, and villages far from the East and West Coast film centers. Using a broad range of research sources, essays from scholars including Richard Abel, Robert Allen, Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, Terry Lindvall, and Greg Waller examine in detail the social and cultural changes this new form of entertainment brought to towns from Gastonia, North Carolina to Placerville, California, and from Norfolk, Virginia to rural Ontario and beyond. Emphasizing the roles of local exhibitors, neighborhood audiences, regional cultures, and the growing national mass media, their essays chart how motion pictures so quickly and successfully moved into old opera houses and glittering new picture palaces on Main Streets across America.

ISBN:	9780520249738
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	04 Mar 2008
DEWEY:	791.430973
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	304
Weight:	390g
Height:	154mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	21mm

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