Cinema Houston from Nickelodeon to Megaplex /

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Autore principale: Welling, David, 1958-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.
Edizione:1st ed.
Serie:Texas film and media studies series.
Roger Fullington series in architecture.
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Sommario:
  • 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.