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The Perils of Moviegoing in America
1896-1950
Langbeschreibung
During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined ("movie eyestrain").
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Conflagration Chapter Two: Thieves Among Us Chapter Three: It's Catching Chapter Four: Bombs Away Chapter Five: The Devil's Apothecary Shops Chapter Six: The Sunday Blues Chapter Seven: Something for Nothing Bibliography
Gary D. Rhodes is Full Professor of Film and Media at Oklahoma Baptist University, USA. He is the author of numerous books, including The Perils of Moviegoing in America (Bloomsbury, 2012) and The Birth of the American Horror Film (2018). Rhodes is a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. He is also the writer- director of such documentary films as Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997) and Banned in Oklahoma (2004). His most recent book is Consuming Images: Film Art and the American Television Commercial (2020), coauthored with Robert Singer. His forthcoming book is entitled Vampires in Silent Cinema (2023).
ISBN-13:
9781441188656
Veröffentl:
2011
Seiten:
384
Autor:
Gary D. Rhodes
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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