From silent screen to multi-screen: A history of cinema exhibition in Britain since 1896 (Studies in Popular Culture) - Softcover

Hanson, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719069459 ISBN 13: 9780719069451

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.

Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening by the Lumière Brothers’ at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896, through to the development of the multiplex and giant megaplex cinemas, the history of cinema exhibition is placed in its wider social, cultural and economic contexts. Adopting a chronological structure, this book takes into account how changes in the structure of the film industry, especially regarding the exhibition sector, impacted upon the cinema-going experience.

From silent screen to multi-screen will be valuable for social historians as well as scholars and students in film studies, media studies and cultural history.

About this title

About the Author

Stuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester

From the Back Cover

Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.

Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening by the Lumière Brothers’ at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896, through to the development of the multiplex and giant megaplex cinemas, the history of cinema exhibition is placed in its wider social, cultural and economic contexts. Adopting a chronological structure, this book takes into account how changes in the structure of the film industry, especially regarding the exhibition sector, impacted upon the cinema-going experience.

From silent screen to multi-screen will be valuable for social historians as well as scholars and students in film studies, media studies and cultural history.

From the Inside Flap

Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present.Charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening by the Lumière Brothers at London s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896, through to the development of the multiplex and giant megaplex cinemas, the history of cinema exhibition is placed in its wider social, cultural and economic contexts. Adopting a chronological structure, this book takes into account how changes in the structure of the film industry, especially regarding the exhibition sector, impacted upon the cinema-going experience. From silent screen to multi-screen will be valuable for social historians as well as scholars and students in film studies, media studies and cultural history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719069459
• ISBN 13: 9780719069451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224