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Title:

American movie audiences : from the turn of the century to the early sound era / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby.

Publisher:

Bfi Publishing,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

vi, 186 p. : ill., facsims ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Motion picture audiences--United States--History.
Motion pictures--History.--United States--History.

Other Authors:

Stokes, Melvyn.
Maltby, Richard, 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Jewish immigrant audiences in New York City, 1905-14 / Judith Thissen -- Italian imageries, historical feature films and the fabrication of Italy's spectators in early 1900s New York / Giorgio Bertellini -- Film and ethnic identity in Harlem, 1896-1915 / Alison Griffiths and James Latham -- 'The formative and impressionable stage': discursive constructions of the nickelodeon's child audience / Roberta Pearson and William Uricchio -- Why the audience mattered in Chicago in 1907 / Lee Grieveson -- The revolt of the audience: reconsidering audiences and reception during the silent era / Steven J. Ross -- Viewing the viewers: representations of the audience in early cinema advertising / Kathryn Helgesen Fuller -- Reminiscences of the past, conditions of the present: at the movies in Milwaukee in 1918 / Leslie Midkiff DeBauche -- This is where we came in: the audible screen and the voluble audiences of early sound cinema / Thomas Doherty -- Hillbilly music and Will Rogers: small-town picture shows in the 1930s / Gregory A. Waller.

ISBN:

9780851707211 (pbk)
0851707211 (pbk)
9780851707228
085170722X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41213343

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)