| Description |
vi, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments v -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 From Spectatorship to Film Consumption 3 -- 2 Contexts of Film Consumption 16 -- PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CINEMA: FAIRGROUNDS, THEATRES AND SPATIAL REGULATION -- Introduction: Class, Gender and Public Space in Early Film Consumption 37 -- 3 Novelties, Fairgrounds and the Exoticisation of Place 52 -- 4 Constructing the Cinematographic Theatre: Purpose-Built Cinemas, 67 -- Community Relations and the Politics of Place -- PART THREE: A PROGRESSIVE CITY AND ITS CINEMAS: TECHNOLOGY, MODERNITY AND THE SPECTACLE OF ABUNDANCE -- Introduction: Slum Clearance, Cinema Building and Differentiated Experiences 83 -- 5 Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance 92 -- 6 The City Centre, the Suburbs and the Cinema-Building Boom 100 -- 7 Consuming Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle 114 -- of Abundance -- PART FOUR: CINEMA CLOSURES, POST-WAR AFFLUENCE AND THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION -- Introduction 131 -- 8 Contemporary Understandings of Cinema Closure 134 -- 9 Locality, Affluence and Urban Decay 143 -- 10 From Cinemagoing to Television Viewing: The Developing Meanings of a 154 -- New Medium -- 11 Negotiating Nostalgia: Modernity, Memory and the Meanings of Place 167 -- PART FIVE: BEYOND CINEMA: FILM CONSUMPTION IN THE INFORMATION AGE -- Introduction 183 -- 12 Regulating Reception: Legislation, Time-Shifting and the Sociality of Video 185 -- 13 'The Splendid American Venture on the Ring Road': Multiplexes, 197 -- Americanisation and Mass Consumption -- -- -- -- 14 Cultural Capitals: Culture, Diversity and Legitimacy 212 -- 15 Media Revolutions: Futurology, Film Content and the New Media 227 -- Conclusion 241 -- Appendix: Questionnaire 251 -- Bibliography 254 -- Index 276 |
| Analysis |
AUDIENCES |
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AUDIENCES. UK |
| Notes |
Contributor biographical information |
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Online Resource: Table of contents |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-274) and index |
| Subject |
Motion picture audiences -- England -- Nottingham.
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Motion picture audiences -- Great Britain.
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Motion picture audiences.
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Motion picture theaters -- Location -- Great Britain.
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Motion picture theaters -- Location.
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| Author |
Faire, Lucy.
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Stubbings, Sarah.
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| LC no. |
2004353165 |
| ISBN |
0851709427 (paperback) |
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0851709435 |
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