Exhibitors Bulletin

Author : Eric Hoyt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520383708

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Ink-Stained Hollywood by Eric Hoyt Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Martin Quigley, publisher of Exhibitors Herald, conspired with Hollywood studios to eliminate all competing trade papers, yet this attempt and each one thereafter collapsed. Exploring the communities of exhibitors and creative workers that constituted key subscribers, Ink-Stained Hollywood tells the story of how a heterogeneous trade press triumphed by appealing to the foundational aspects of industry culture—taste, vanity, partisanship, and exclusivity. In captivating detail, Eric Hoyt chronicles the histories of well-known trade papers (Variety, Motion Picture Herald) alongside important yet forgotten publications (Film Spectator, Film Mercury, and Camera!), and challenges the canon of film periodicals, offering new interpretative frameworks for understanding print journalism’s relationship with the motion picture industry and its continued impact on creative industries today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Art and industry
ISBN : BL:A0021707198

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Catalogue of the British Section. Containing a List of the Exhibitors of the United Kingdom and Its Colonies, and the Objects which They Exhibit. In English, French, German, and Italian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Hannan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476633916

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In Theaters Everywhere by Brian Hannan Pdf

 Conflicts among Hollywood studios and exhibitors have been going on for years. At their heart are questions about how films should be released—where, when and at what speed. Both sides of this disagreement are losers, with exhibitors using the law via various Consent Decrees and studios retaliating by tightly controlling output. In the Silent Era, movies were not released nearly as widely as they are now. This book tells the story of how the few became the many. It explores the contraction of the release cycle, the maximization of the marketing dollar, and the democratization of consumer access. It also offers a comprehensive list of wide releases and rebuts much of what previous scholars have found.

Author : United States. District Court (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433085600983

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The United States of America, Petitioner, Vs. Motion Picture Patents Company Et Al, Defendants by United States. District Court (Pennsylvania : Eastern District) Pdf

Author : Associated Exhibitors, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433035464167

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Associated Exhibitors Exploitation Bulletin by Associated Exhibitors, Incorporated Pdf

Author : Brian Hannan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476623894

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Coming Back to a Theater Near You by Brian Hannan Pdf

In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios—every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years after the Silent Era, reissues were a battle between the studios, who considered old movies “found money,” and cinema owners, who often saw audiences reject former box office hits. In the mid–1960s, the return of The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)—the second biggest reissue of all time—altered industry perceptions, and James Bond double features pushed the revival market to new heights. In the digital age, reissues have continued to confound the critics. This is the untold hundred-year story of how old movies saved new Hollywood. Covering the booms and busts of a recycling business that became its own industry, the author describes how the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart and Alfred Hitchcock won over new generations of audiences, and explores the lasting appeal of films like Napoléon (1927), Gone with the Wind (1939), The Rocky Horror Show (1975) and Blade Runner (1982).

Author : Krystyn R. Moon
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813535077

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Yellowface by Krystyn R. Moon Pdf

Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s -- The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s -- From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s -- The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s

Author : Hal Erickson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476629308

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Any Resemblance to Actual Persons by Hal Erickson Pdf

Most film buffs know that Citizen Kane was based on the life of publisher William Randolph Hearst. But few are aware that key characters in films like Double Indemnity, Cool Hand Luke, Jaws, Rain Man, A Few Good Men and Zero Dark Thirty were inspired by actual persons. This survey of a clef characters covers a selection of fictionalized personalities, beginning with the Silent Era. The landmark lawsuit surrounding Rasputin and the Empress (1932) introduced disclaimers in film credits, assuring audiences that characters were not based on real people--even when they were. Entries cover screen incarnations of Wyatt Earp, Al Capone, Bing Crosby, Amelia Earhart, Buster Keaton, Howard Hughes, Janis Joplin and Richard Nixon, along with the inspirations behind perennial favorites like Charlie Chan and Indiana Jones.

Author : Film Bulletin Company
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013466535

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Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1947); 15 by Film Bulletin Company Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Michael Aronson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973867

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Nickelodeon City by Michael Aronson Pdf

From the 1905 opening of the wildly popular, eponymous Nickelodeon in the city's downtown to the outgrowth of nickel theaters in nearly all of its neighborhoods, Pittsburgh proved to be perfect for the movies. Nickelodeon City profiles the major promoters in Pittsburgh, as well as ordinary theater owners, suppliers, and patrons. Aronson examines early film promotion, distribution, and exhibition, and reveals the beginnings of state censorship and the lobbying and manipulation attempted by members of the movie trade.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Copyright
ISBN : LOC:00186829037

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Copyrights by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015065586417

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Bulletins and Other State Intelligence by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lary May
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226511634

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The Big Tomorrow by Lary May Pdf

In this daring reexamination of the connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, Lary May offers a fresh interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through the Cold War—one in which a populist, egalitarian ethos found itself eventually supplanted by a far different view of the nation. "One of the best books ever written about the movies." —Tom Ryan, The Age "The most exhilarating work of revisionist film history since Pauline Kael's Citizen Kane. . . . May's take on what movies once were (energizing, as opposed to enervating), and hence can become again, is enough to get you believing in them again as one of the regenerative forces America so sorely needs."—Jay Carr, Boston Globe "A startling, revisionist history of Hollywood's impact on politics and American culture. . . . A convincing and important addition to American cultural criticism."—Publishers Weekly "A controversial overview of 30 years of American film history; must reading for any serious student of the subject."—Choice "A provocative social history of Hollywood's influence in American life from the 1930s to the 1950s. May argues persuasively that movies in the period offered a good deal of tough criticism of economic and social conditions in U.S. society. . . . May challenges us to engage in some serious rethinking about Hollywood's impact on American society in the middle of the twentieth century."—Robert Brent Toplin, American Historical Review

Author : Ross Melnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231554138

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Hollywood's Embassies by Ross Melnick Pdf

Winner - 2022 Richard Wall Memorial Award, Theatre Library Association Beginning in the 1920s, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. In a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo, Ross Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging, selling American ideas, products, and power, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social, cultural, racial, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead, it is one of negotiation, booms and busts, successes and failures, adoptions and rejections, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power.

Author : Paul Kerr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501336775

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Hollywood Independent by Paul Kerr Pdf

Hollywood Independent dissects the Mirisch Company, one of the most successful employers of the package-unit system of film production, producing classic films like The Apartment (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Great Escape (1963) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) as irresistible talent packages. Whilst they helped make the names of a new generation of stars including Steve McQueen and Shirley MacLaine, as well as banking on the reputations of established auteurs like Billy Wilder, they were also pioneers in dealing with controversial new themes with films about race (In the Heat of the Night), gender (Some Like it Hot) and sexuality (The Children's Hour), devising new ways of working with film franchises (The Magnificent Seven, The Pink Panther and In the Heat of the Night spun off 7 Mirisch sequels between them) and cinematic cycles, investing in adaptations of bestsellers and Broadway hits, exploiting frozen funds abroad and exploring so-called runaway productions. The Mirisch Company bridges the gap between the end of the studio system by about 1960 and the emergence of a new cinema in the mid-1970s, dominated by the Movie Brats.