Cinema Houston from Nickelodeon to Megaplex /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Texas film and media studies series.
Roger Fullington series in architecture. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Staged origins
- The nickelodeons
- Bigger and better
- The majestics
- The main three : the metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's state
- The later 1920s : you ain't heard nothing yet!
- Will Horwitz, philanthropist
- The neighborhood theatre, 1934-1949
- Hoblitzelle's interstate
- Jim Crow and the ethnic theatre
- The fifties : the incredible 3-d wide-screen technicolor stereophonic-sound ballyhoo parade
- The drive-in : a view from the car seat
- The sixties : the times, they are a-changin'
- The x-houses
- From multicinema to multiplex : safety in numbers
- Let them eat candy : the concession stand
- Beyond the fringe : midnight movies and the alternative cinema
- Rediscovery in the age of the megaplex
- Perspectives : an afterword
- Notes.