Description
"Moviegoing in America is an important, groundbreaking book." -- The Moving Image
"Waller assembles an impressive collection that should become a key resource in the teaching of film exhibition history." -- Screen
About the Author
Gregory A. Waller is Professor and Chair of the Department of English, University of Kentucky. He is author of Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930 (1995), which was awarded the Theater Library Association Award and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award of the Society for Cinema Studies for outstanding scholarship in film and media studies. The author's other publications include American Horrors: Essays on the Modern American Horror Film (1987) and The Living and the Undead: From Stoker's 'Dracula' to Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' (1986).
Reviews
"Moviegoing in America is an important, groundbreaking book." -- The Moving Image
"Waller assembles an impressive collection that should become a key resource in the teaching of film exhibition history." -- Screen
"Interesting, at times surprising, and wide-ranging, Moviegoing in America is an outstanding collection on film exhibition in the United States from before the nickelodeons through today's stadium-seated multiplexes." Chuck Maland, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Moviegoing in America is a strong contribution to Film Studies. Spanning a broad historical period, drawing upon the work of major researchers, and comprising scholarly as well as trade press essays, it will be highly valuable to all courses on American film history." Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh
Book Information
ISBN 9780631225928
Author Gregory A. Waller
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 626g
Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 173mm * 21mm
