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Cinema Houston [electronic resource] : from Nickelodeon to Megaplex / David Welling ; foreword by Jack Valenti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas film and media studies series | Roger Fullington series in architecturePublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 332 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 725/.823097641411 22
LOC classification:
  • NA6846.U62 H689 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Staged origins -- The nickelodeons -- Bigger and better -- The majestics -- The main three : the metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's state -- The later 1920s : you ain't heard nothing yet! -- Will Horwitz, philanthropist -- The neighborhood theatre, 1934-1949 -- Hoblitzelle's interstate -- Jim Crow and the ethnic theatre -- The fifties : the incredible 3-d wide-screen technicolor stereophonic-sound ballyhoo parade -- The drive-in : a view from the car seat -- The sixties : the times, they are a-changin' -- The x-houses -- From multicinema to multiplex : safety in numbers -- Let them eat candy : the concession stand -- Beyond the fringe : midnight movies and the alternative cinema -- Rediscovery in the age of the megaplex -- Perspectives : an afterword -- Notes.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.

Introduction -- Staged origins -- The nickelodeons -- Bigger and better -- The majestics -- The main three : the metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's state -- The later 1920s : you ain't heard nothing yet! -- Will Horwitz, philanthropist -- The neighborhood theatre, 1934-1949 -- Hoblitzelle's interstate -- Jim Crow and the ethnic theatre -- The fifties : the incredible 3-d wide-screen technicolor stereophonic-sound ballyhoo parade -- The drive-in : a view from the car seat -- The sixties : the times, they are a-changin' -- The x-houses -- From multicinema to multiplex : safety in numbers -- Let them eat candy : the concession stand -- Beyond the fringe : midnight movies and the alternative cinema -- Rediscovery in the age of the megaplex -- Perspectives : an afterword -- Notes.

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