Star Theatre

Author : William Firebrace
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780238883

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Star Theatre by William Firebrace Pdf

Most of us can recall a childhood visit to a planetarium: the sense of anticipation as the room darkens. The stars begin to appear as the voice of an astronomer is heard. In the planetarium, where the audience is transported to distant galaxies, the wondrous complexity of the cosmos combines with entertainment to become a theater of the night. Star Theatre explores the history of the planetarium’s mix of science and spectacle. William Firebrace reveals how in the planetarium, the solar system and universe is demonstrated on an ever-expanding scale. He traces the origins of the building through history, from its antecedents to its invention in Germany in the 1920s, developments in the USSR and the United States, to its expansion across the globe at the time of the space race, and finally to the evolution of the contemporary planetarium in a time of startling astronomical and cosmological discoveries. This concise and well-illustrated history will appeal to astronomy lovers and those interested in architecture, theater, and cinema.

Author : Konrad Schiecke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476610702

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Historic Movie Theatres in Illinois, 1883Ð1960 by Konrad Schiecke Pdf

This history and catalog of the movie theaters of Illinois follows their evolution from the early opera houses, to the storefront nickelodeons, to the awe-inspiring movie palaces, to the post—World War II theaters and the advent of the multiplex. Each theater has its own story, and together these stories make up a fascinating history of cinema viewing in Illinois. This richly illustrated book—the first dealing exclusively with Illinois theatres— contains nearly 3,000 descriptions of historic movie houses, from the early 1880s to 1960. The alphabetically arranged entries, which include such information as the theater’s name, location, number of seats, and the dates it opened and closed, cover cities and towns from Abingdon to Zion, including Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. The book opens with a history of the movie house, beginning with silent movies shown on walls and ending with the multiplex era. It also includes a chapter on television’s impact and information on renovated historic theatres in the state. Appendices include lists of Illinois-operated movie theatre circuits, theatre websites and include a bibliography.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281054

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Frank Cullen,Florence Hackman,Donald McNeilly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 1362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Entertainers
ISBN : 9780415938532

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Vaudeville old & new by Frank Cullen,Florence Hackman,Donald McNeilly Pdf

Author : Cezar Del Valle
Publisher : Cezar Del Valle
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 0982772408

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The Brooklyn Theatre Index Volume I Adams Street to Lorimer Street by Cezar Del Valle Pdf

From 19th Century playhouses to the opulence of the 1920s movie palace and the multiplexes of today, The Brooklyn Theatre Index acts as a resource guide to the borough's performance spaces. The Index has its origins in two earlier surveys of Brooklyn theatres conducted independently by Dario Marotta and Michael Miller, each compiling an extensive listing of Brooklyn venues. For the purpose of the Index, the two lists were combined and extensive research was carried out on each auditorium with new information uncovered and a number of new venues added. Volume I begins with Gothic Hall on Adams Street and ends with a "moving picture show" at Lorimer and Meserole Streets..

Author : Lena McPhatter Gore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313033322

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The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960 by Lena McPhatter Gore Pdf

A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. Included in the volume are the earliest organizations that existed before the Civil War, Black minstrel troupes, pioneer musical show companies, selected vaudeville and road show troupes, professional theatrical associations, booking agencies, stock companies, significant amateur and little theatre groups, Black units of the WPA Federal Theatre, and semi-professional groups in Harlem after the Federal Theatre. The A-Z entries are supplemented with a classified appendix that also includes additional organizations not listed in the main directory, a bibliography, and three indexes for shows, showpeople, and general subjects. Cross referencing makes related information easy to find.

Author : Neepa Majumdar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252091780

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Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! by Neepa Majumdar Pdf

Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! maps out the early culture of cinema stardom in India from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Neepa Majumdar combines readings of specific films and stars with an analysis of the historical and cultural configurations that gave rise to distinctly Indian notions of celebrity. She argues that discussions of early cinematic stardom in India must be placed in the context of the general legitimizing discourse of colonial "improvement" that marked other civic and cultural spheres as well, and that "vernacular modernist" anxieties over the New Woman had limited resonance here. Rather, it was through emphatically nationalist discourses that Indian cinema found its model for modern female identities. Considering questions of spectatorship, gossip, popularity, and the dominance of a star-based production system, Majumdar details the rise of film stars such as Sulochana, Fearless Nadia, Lata Mangeshkar, and Nargis.

Author : Brian Armstrong
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147804

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History Lover's Guide to Bar Harbor, A by Brian Armstrong Pdf

Bar Harbor has evolved from humble beginnings to become one of Maine's most popular destinations. This tour goes beyond the typical travel guide to explore its fascinating historical sites in detail. A trail of existing buildings and monuments provides a backdrop for an unconventional history of places, people and events, with many previously unpublished photographs and untold entertaining stories. Discover the changes wrought by the world wars, the Spanish influenza, Prohibition and the Fire of 1947. Tour the Way Bak Ball, La Rochelle, the Casino and the Wharf. From Bar Harbor's first African American sea captain to the story of the two Miss Shannons, author Brian Armstrong offers a fascinating look into the history behind some of Bar Harbor's most famous landmarks.

Author : David Welling
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780292773981

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Cinema Houston by David Welling Pdf

Cinema Houston celebrates a vibrant century of movie theatres and moviegoing in Texas's largest city. Illustrated with more than two hundred historical photographs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements, it traces the history of Houston movie theatres from their early twentieth-century beginnings in vaudeville and nickelodeon houses to the opulent downtown theatres built in the 1920s (the Majestic, Metropolitan, Kirby, and Loew's State). It also captures the excitement of the neighborhood theatres of the 1930s and 1940s, including the Alabama, Tower, and River Oaks; the theatres of the 1950s and early 1960s, including the Windsor and its Cinerama roadshows; and the multicinemas and megaplexes that have come to dominate the movie scene since the late 1960s. While preserving the glories of Houston's lost movie palaces—only a few of these historic theatres still survive—Cinema Houston also vividly re-creates the moviegoing experience, chronicling midnight movie madness, summer nights at the drive-in, and, of course, all those tasty snacks at the concession stand. Sure to appeal to a wide audience, from movie fans to devotees of Houston's architectural history, Cinema Houston captures the bygone era of the city's movie houses, from the lowbrow to the sublime, the hi-tech sound of 70mm Dolby and THX to the crackle of a drive-in speaker on a cool spring evening.

Author : Susan Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135465278

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Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars by Susan Murray Pdf

First Published in 2005. In this engaging cultural and industrial history of early television, Susan Murray examines how and why the broadcasting industry gave birth to the idea of TV stars. Combining a sweeping view of the rise of the medium with profiles of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, and other early television greats, Murray illuminates the central role played by television stars in the growth and development of American broadcasting.

Author : James Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810878334

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater by James Fisher Pdf

Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1538 to 1880. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in American during the colonial era and the first century of the United States of America, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such figures as Lewis Hallam, David Douglass, Mercy Otis Warren, Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, Joseph Jefferson, Ida Aldridge, Dion Boucicault, Edwin Booth, and many others. The Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Beginnings covers the history of early American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the early American Theater.

Author : Julia Hallam,Les Roberts
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253011121

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Locating the Moving Image by Julia Hallam,Les Roberts Pdf

Essays exploring the methodologies used by film scholars to develop a spatial history of the moving image. Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial enterprise, as a leisure activity, and as modes of expression and communication. Their research charts new pathways in mapping the relationship between film production and local film practices, theatrical exhibition circuits and cinema going, creating new forms of spatial anthropology. Topics include cinematic practices in rural and urban communities, development of cinema by amateur filmmakers, and use of GIS in mapping the spatial development of film production and cinema going as social practices. “Introduces some of the concrete ways practical mapping and GIS technologies help elaborate historical film projects. . . . The scope of many of these projects is breathtaking in scale. . . . Others embrace ethnographic methods that tell poignant individual stories. Still others deftly merge qualitative and quantitative approaches. . . . As a whole, the volume brings together disparate fields of study in interesting ways.” —James Craine, California State University, Northridge “This collection breaks new ground for cinema history. Hallam and Roberts have gathered some of the foremost scholars who are mapping spatial histories of the moving image and the geographies of film production, distribution and consumption. Introducing new interdisciplinary methods and asking new questions, Locating the Moving Image takes film studies into new territory, beyond the boundaries of the text and its interpretation, towards an understanding of the relationship between culture, spatiality and place.” —Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University

Author : Cyril P. Heiman,United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211219881

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Soldier Shows Script Folio No. 2 by Cyril P. Heiman,United States. Department of the Army Pdf

Author : United States. Department of the Army,Cyril P. Heiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Amateur plays
ISBN : UVA:X030449979

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Soldier Shows Script Folio No. 2 by United States. Department of the Army,Cyril P. Heiman Pdf

Author : Sarvani Gooptu,Mimasha Pandit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000901252

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Performance and the Culture of Nationalism by Sarvani Gooptu,Mimasha Pandit Pdf

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia.It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times. Drawing on various theatrical performance texts, it looks at the ways in which performative narratives have reflected the national narrative and analyses the role performance has played in engendering nationhood. The volume discusses themes such as political martyrdom as performative nationalism, the revitalisation of nationalism through new media, the sanitisation of physical gestures in dance, the performance of nationhood through violence in Tajiki films, as well as K-Pop and the new northeastern identity in India. A unique contribution to the study of nationalism, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern India, Asian studies, political studies, social anthropology and sociology.