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Gary D. Rhodes

The Perils of Moviegoing in America

1896-1950

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During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined (movie eyestrain). Audiences also confronted an array o… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4411-8865-6
  • EAN: 9781441188656
  • Produktnummer: 29846317
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'930 KB
  • Abbildungen: 30

Über den Autor


Gary D. Rhodes, PhD, is currently Head of Area for Film Studies at The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of Lugosi (McFarland, 1997) and White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland, 2002). Rhodes has also written and directed a number of documentary films.

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