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The cinema and cinema-going in Scotland, 1896-1950 / / Trevor Griffiths



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Autore: Griffiths Trevor Visualizza persona
Titolo: The cinema and cinema-going in Scotland, 1896-1950 / / Trevor Griffiths Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
Disciplina: 791.43094110904099
Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Scotland - History - 20th century
Motion picture audiences - Scotland - History - 20th century
Classificazione: HD 505
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-344) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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
ConclusionAppendix 1; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: The cinema and cinema-going in Scotland, 1896-1950  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-15474-3
0-7486-6804-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813773703321
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