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The Cinema and Cinema-going in Scotland, 1896-1950
Trevor Griffiths
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Description for The Cinema and Cinema-going in Scotland, 1896-1950
Paperback. This scholarly work documents the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. It draws on archival resources including documentation kept by cinema managers and the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 554.
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 as changes in audience preferences for different genres, stars ... Read more
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 as changes in audience preferences for different genres, stars ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
555g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748685219
SKU
V9780748685219
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About Trevor Griffiths
Educated at the University of Oxford, Trevor Griffiths has worked on aspects of working-class culture and society in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and developments in textile technology in Britain prior to and during the Industrial Revolution. He co-edited and part-authored the volume on the nineteenth century in the History of Everyday Life in Scotland series ... Read more
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