Screen traffic: movies, multiplexes, and global culture

1. Global audiences and the current cinema -- 2. Traveling cultures, mutating commodities -- 3. Matinees, summers, and the practice of cinemagoing -- 4. Crisis and settlement in exhibition and distribution -- 5. "Here come the megaplexes" -- 6. Zones and speeds of international cinematic l...

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Main Author: Acland, Charles R. 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press c2003
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Summary:1. Global audiences and the current cinema -- 2. Traveling cultures, mutating commodities -- 3. Matinees, summers, and the practice of cinemagoing -- 4. Crisis and settlement in exhibition and distribution -- 5. "Here come the megaplexes" -- 6. Zones and speeds of international cinematic life -- 7. Northern screens -- 8. The miniaturization of the theme park, or after the "death" of cinema -- 9. Cinemagoing as "felt internationalism" -- -- Appendices: -- 1. Screens per million population -- 2. World screen count -- 3. National average cinema admissions per person (annual) -- 4. Multiplexing in Europe -- 5. MPAA's goals for digital cinemas -- 6. Existing digital cinemas, 2000 -- 7. Digital movies released for DLP projectors
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index
Physical Description:xii, 337 p ill 24 cm
ISBN:9780822384861
0822384868

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