Exhibition, The Film Reader

Ina Rae Hark

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English

Routledge
13 December 2001

Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; Cinema industry

Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers

From the kinetoscope, designed for use by one viewer at a time, to the lavish movie palaces of Hollywood's golden era, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across the film industry. Exhibition, The Film Reader explores the range of venues in which films have been shown, following the fluctuating status of film and the continuning struggle over audiences. Contributors trace the emergence of a culture of moviegoing, exploring the meanings conveyed to spectators through exhibition sites and practices, and raising key issues of distribution, access and consumption. How

does the experience of moviegoing differ from television? Why did the corporate anonymity replace the individual flair of movie palace design? And how have changes in film exhibition influenced filmmakers? Sections include:
* Where the movies were traces the changing landscape of movie theatres, from the segregated nickelodeons of the silent era to the rise of art houses and mall theatres
* The business of exhibition explores tensions between film producers and exhibitions, covering the major shifts in power from the emergence of chains in the 1920s, to the destruction of the movie palaces and the rise of the multiplex
* The meanings of the exhibition site focuses on the experience of watching films in the fantastic word of movie palaces and on televison, and explores issues of gendered space in the movie theatre and public versus private viewing rituals. Contributors: Dudley Andrew, Anthony Downs, Gary Edgerton,

Anne Firedberg, Kathryn Helgesen Fuller, Douglas Gomery, Thomas Guback, Ben M. Hall, Ina Rae Hark, Charlotte Herzog, Russell Meritt, William Paul, Suzanne I. Schiller, Gregory Waller, Barbara Wilinsky. Includes essays by: Dudley Andrew, Anthony Downs, Gary Edgerton, Anne Friedberg, Kathryn Helgesen

Fuller, Douglas Gomery, Thomas Guback, Ben M. Hall, Ina Rae

Hark, Charlotte Herzog, Russell Meritt, Wi

Edited by: Ina Rae Hark
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9780415235181
ISBN 10: 0415235189
Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 13 December 2001
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Where the Movies Were - 1. Russell Merritt The Nickelodeon Theater 1905-1914: Building an Audience for the Movies 2. Gregory Waller Another Audience: Black Moviegoing from 1907-1916 3. Kathryn Helgesen Fuller Nickelodeon Nomenclature: The Urban Picture Palace's 4. Charlotte Herzog The Movie Palace and the Theatrical Sources of Its Architectural Style 5. Barbara Wilinsky Discourses on Art House in the 1950s 6. William Paul The K-Mart Audience at the Mall Movies Part II: The Business of Exhibition 7. Douglas Gregory The Rise of National Theatre Chains - Balaban & Katz Postscript 8. Suzanne I. Schiller The Relationship Between Motion Picture Distribution and Exhibition: an Analysis of the Effects of Anti-Blind Bidding Legislation 9. Anthony Downs Where the Drive-In Fits into the Movie Industry 10. Thomas Guback The Evolution of the Motion Picture Theater Business in the 1980s Part III: The Meanings of the Exhibition Site - 11. Ben M. Hall An Acre of Seats in a Garden of Dreams: The Stage Moves to the Screen 12. Ina Rae Hark The 'Theater Man' and 'The Girl in the Box Office' 13. Gary Edgerton The Multiplex: the Modern American Motion Picture Theater as Message 14. Dudley Andrew Film and Society: Public Rituals and Private Space 15. Anne Friedberg Spectatorial Bibliography.