Moviegoing in America A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition [Paperback]

Pairing significant research with primary documents, Moviegoing in America charts the evolution of film exhibition and reception as a function of changing patterns of American community, identity, consumption, and the fabric of everyday life.

Moviegoing in America is an important, groundbreaking book. -- The Moving Image

Waller assembles an impressive collection that should become a key resource in the teaching of film exhibition history. -- Screen

List of Illustrations.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: A Century at the Movies: Gregory A. Waller.

Part I: Capturing an Audience, Creating a Business: 1896–1916:.

Introduction.

1. Introducing Cinema to the American Public: The Vitascope in the United States, 1896–7:Charles Musser.

2. From Rum Shop to Rialto: Workers and Movies: Roy Rosenzweig.

3. Cheap Amusements (1908): John Collier.

4. Some Picture Show Audiences (1911): Mary Heaton Vorse.

5. Motion-Picture Work (1911): David Hulfish.

6. Hints to Exhibitors (1908): W. Stephen Bush.

7. Handling the Visitor (1909): Moving Picture World.

8. Posteritis (1910): F. H. Richardson.

9. Swelling the Box Office Receipts (1911): George Rockhill Craw.

10. The Murder of Othello (1911): H. F. Hoffman.

11. Projection (1912): F. H. Richardson.

12. The Regulation of Motion Picture Theaters (1912): Boyd Fisher.

13. Architectural Treatment of the Moving Picture Theatre (1914): Aymar Embury II.

Part II: Palatial Palaces and Everyday Practiceslû