When Movies Were Theater

Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film

William Paul (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17657-6 (ISBN)

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There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.

William Paul is professor of film and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the author of Ernst Lubitsch's American Comedy (1983) and Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy (1994).

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: An Art of the Theater 1. Making Movies Fit 2. Store Theaters: A Radical Break 3. Palatial Architecture, Democratized Audience 4. Elite Taste in a Mass Medium 5. Uncanny Theater 6. The Architectural Screen Conclusion: Ontological Fade-Out Appendix 1: Stage Shows and Double Features in Select Markets Outside New York City Appendix 2: Feature Films Based on Theatrical Sources Appenidx 3: Filmography Appendix 4: List of Theaters Abbreviations Used for Citations in Notes Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Film and Culture Series
Zusatzinfo	71 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-231-17657-0 / 0231176570
ISBN-13	978-0-231-17657-6 / 9780231176576
Zustand	Neuware