When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film, by William Paul
In the acknowledgements, William Paul indebts the discoveries of his newest book, When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film, to research of late 1920s wide-gauge filmmaking. Upon realising the exhibition format had originally been implemented to make up f...
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| description | In the acknowledgements, William Paul indebts the discoveries of his newest book, When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film, to research of late 1920s wide-gauge filmmaking. Upon realising the exhibition format had originally been implemented to make up for lacklustre viewing experiences in ginormous movie palaces, he was inspired to write a revision of the early movie exhibition nostalgia found in Ben M. Hall’s The Best Remaining Seats: The Golden Age of the Movie Palace and Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs’s Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theatres. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef284fef81d64acfaa63d4c50355346e2022-12-22T02:56:23ZengUniversity College CorkAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media2009-40782018-10-0115162167https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.15.13When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film, by William PaulTober Corrigan0Biola University, Southern CaliforniaIn the acknowledgements, William Paul indebts the discoveries of his newest book, When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film, to research of late 1920s wide-gauge filmmaking. Upon realising the exhibition format had originally been implemented to make up for lacklustre viewing experiences in ginormous movie palaces, he was inspired to write a revision of the early movie exhibition nostalgia found in Ben M. Hall’s The Best Remaining Seats: The Golden Age of the Movie Palace and Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs’s Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theatres.http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue15/HTML/ReviewCorrigan.htmlcinema historymovie-house architecturefilm exhibition |
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