Kathryn H. Fuller At the picture show

small-town audiences and the creation of movie fan culture

The movies in the US became as much a small-town phenomenon as an urban one and this is, in the silent film era, worth exploring because in the early 1900s nonurban settlements still predominated. Small-town viewers represented a vital component of the American movie audience and played an active role in shaping the development of the film industry.

Engels | 248 pagina's | University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville [etc.] | 2001

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