American showman Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935 /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Roxy and silent film exhibition (1908-1922). A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913)
- Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917)
- The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918)
- "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922)
- Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). A capitol idea: Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1925)
- "It's the Roxy and I'm Roxy": building the brand and the Roxy Theatre (1925-1927)
- It's all playing in Sheboygan: Roxy, Rapee, and the emergence of convergence (1928-1931)
- The prologue is past: Roxy, media divergence, and Radio City Music Hall (1931-1936)
- Conclusion.