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Author Griffiths, Trevor

Title The cinema and cinema-going in Scotland, 1896-1950 / Trevor Griffiths
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (v, 354 pages)
Contents 1. From Variety Hall to Picture House: The Emergence of Scottish Cinema to 1914 -- 2. Regulating Scottish Cinema: Censorship and the Child Audience -- 3. Through War and Peace: The Changing Fortunes of Scottish Silent Cinema, 1914-29 -- 4. A Seven-day Wonder? Cinema and the Scottish Sabbath -- 5. An Essential Social Habit: Cinema-going in the Early Sound Era, c.1927-39 -- 6. Beyond the Dream Palace: The Role of Non-commercial Cinema in Scotland -- 7. To the Summit and Beyond: Cinema-going in the 1940s -- 8. A Flickering Image: Scottish Film Production
Summary What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen?. This is the first scholarly work to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers. He considers patterns of cinema-going and attendance levels, as well a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-344) and index
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century
Motion picture audiences -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Motion picture audiences
Motion pictures
Scotland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012494439
ISBN 9780748668045
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9781299154742
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