Main Street Movies (eBook)

The History of Local Film in the United States

Martin L. Johnson (Autor)

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2018
316 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03254-6 (ISBN)

Infos

1. The scholarship in this book is a unique and ground-breaking perspective on film culture in small-town America

2. It is a strong project by an up and coming scholar who is very engaged in his field.

3. The book provides rich archival evidence, and multimedia is hosted in enhanced e-book edition as well as online for our print readers via our partnership with the IU Online Media Archives.

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"See yourself in the movies!"
 
Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen without leaving their hometowns. Through these movies, residents could see themselves in the same theaters where they saw major Hollywood motion pictures. Traveling filmmakers plied their trade in small towns and cities, where these films were received by locals as being part of the larger cinema experience. With access to the rare film clips under discussion, Main Street Movies documents the diversity and longevity of local film production and examines how itinerant filmmakers responded to industry changes to keep sponsors and audiences satisfied. From town pride films in the 1910s to Hollywood knockoffs in the 1930s, local films captured not just images of local people and places but also ideas about the function and meaning of cinema that continue to resonate today.

Autor

Martin L. Johnson is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Inhalt

Accessing Moving Images
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Defining the Local Film
1. The Silent Pageant: Municipal Booster Films
2. The Home Talent Film and the Origins of Itinerancy
3. "How Movies Are Made": Hollywood and the Local Film
4. Itinerants Adopt a Baby: The Local Hollywood Film and the Operational Aesthetic
5. Kidnapping the Movie Queen: Amateur Aesthetics as Cultural Critique
6. The Cameraman Has Visited Your Town: The Local Film and the Politics of Recognition
7. Every Town has its Main Street: The Banal Localism of the Civic Film
8. Reclaiming the Local Film: Artifacts, Archives, and Audiences
Conclusion: See Your Town Disappear: The Historicity of the Local Film
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.1.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Alabama • America • Americana • American Culture • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Cinema • Cinema, film, history, local film, media, regional cinema, twentieth century, Films, film studies, cinephile, local history, state history, state and local history, state archives • cinephile • Colorado • Connecticut • everyday people • Film • Films • Film Studies • Florida • Georgia • History • Idaho • Illinois • Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • local film • local filmmakers • Local History • local newspaper archives • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • media • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont • New Mexico • newspaper archives • newspaper archives, local newspaper archives, local filmmakers, everyday people, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • PAST • Pennsylvania • regional cinema • South Carolina • South Dakota • state and local history • State archives • state history • Tennessee • Texas • Twentieth century • United States • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, America, United States, Americana, American Culture, past, history • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03254-7 / 0253032547
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03254-6 / 9780253032546