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Cinema Houston : From Nickelodeon to Megaplex.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Roger Fullington Series in Architecture SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292795105
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cinema HoustonDDC classification:
  • 725/.823097641411
LOC classification:
  • NA6846
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jack Valenti -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Staged Origins -- TWO. The Nickelodeons -- THREE. Bigger and Better -- FOUR. The Majestics -- FIVE. The Main Three: The Metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's State -- SIX. The Later 1920s: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet! -- SEVEN. Will Horwitz, Philanthropist -- EIGHT. The Neighborhood Theatre, 1934-1949 -- NINE. Hoblitzelle's Interstate -- TEN. Jim Crow and the Ethnic theatre -- ELEVEN. The Fifties: The Incredible 3-D Wide-Screen Technicolor Stereophonic-Sound Ballyhoo Parade -- TWELVE. The Drive-In: A View from the Car Seat -- THIRTEEN. The Sixties: The Times, They Are A-Changin' -- FOURTEEN. The X-Houses -- FIFTEEN. From Multicinema to Multiplex: Safety in Numbers -- SIXTEEN. Let Them Eat Candy: The Concession Stand -- SEVENTEEN. Beyond the Fringe: Midnight Movies and the Alternative Cinema -- EIGHTEEN. Rediscovery in the Age of the Megaplex -- NINETEEN. Perspectives: An Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jack Valenti -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Staged Origins -- TWO. The Nickelodeons -- THREE. Bigger and Better -- FOUR. The Majestics -- FIVE. The Main Three: The Metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's State -- SIX. The Later 1920s: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet! -- SEVEN. Will Horwitz, Philanthropist -- EIGHT. The Neighborhood Theatre, 1934-1949 -- NINE. Hoblitzelle's Interstate -- TEN. Jim Crow and the Ethnic theatre -- ELEVEN. The Fifties: The Incredible 3-D Wide-Screen Technicolor Stereophonic-Sound Ballyhoo Parade -- TWELVE. The Drive-In: A View from the Car Seat -- THIRTEEN. The Sixties: The Times, They Are A-Changin' -- FOURTEEN. The X-Houses -- FIFTEEN. From Multicinema to Multiplex: Safety in Numbers -- SIXTEEN. Let Them Eat Candy: The Concession Stand -- SEVENTEEN. Beyond the Fringe: Midnight Movies and the Alternative Cinema -- EIGHTEEN. Rediscovery in the Age of the Megaplex -- NINETEEN. Perspectives: An Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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