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High-Class Moving Pictures
Musser, Charles; Nelson, Carol
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Description for High-Class Moving Pictures
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; APFA; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and the exemplar of an important but until now little examined aspect of American popular culture. This work, with its numerous and lively illustrations, uses his career to explore the world of itinerant showmen, who exhibited all motion pictures seen outside large cities during the 1890s and early 1900s. They frequently built cultural alliances with genteel city dwellers or conservative churchgoers and in later years favored "high-class" topics appealing to audiences uncomfortable with the plebeian nickelodeons. Bridging the fields of American ... Read more
The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and the exemplar of an important but until now little examined aspect of American popular culture. This work, with its numerous and lively illustrations, uses his career to explore the world of itinerant showmen, who exhibited all motion pictures seen outside large cities during the 1890s and early 1900s. They frequently built cultural alliances with genteel city dwellers or conservative churchgoers and in later years favored "high-class" topics appealing to audiences uncomfortable with the plebeian nickelodeons. Bridging the fields of American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
388
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691633947
SKU
V9780691633947
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Reviews for High-Class Moving Pictures
"Traveling film exibitions is the underlying topic of High-Class Moving Pictures, which documents the work of American showman Lyman H. Howe, presenting motion picture entertainment outside major cities. Excellent as is Musser's study, it deals with a totally unacknowleged and unrecognized area of history"
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