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Interim book		American movie audiences: from the turn of the century to the early sound era / Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 1999. Call No: 410(73) STO Author: Stokes, Melvyn; Maltby, Richard Source: UK Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 186 p. ; 23 cm Subject: SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA. USA; AUDIENCES, US; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA Summary: This book is an investigation by various authors into the early days of American cinema. Topics covered include: Jewish immigrant audiences in New York City 1905-14, Small town picture shows, representations of the audience in early cinema advertising, at the movies in Milwaukee in 1918. ISBN: 0851707211 More info
book		Explorations in new cinema history : approaches and case studies / edited Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Call No: 38 EXP Author: Maltby, Richard; Biltereyst, Daniel; Meers, Phillippe Source: UK Place: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell PubDate: 2011 PhysDes: xi, 335 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm Subject: SOCIAL HISTORY AND THE CINEMA; AUDIENCES; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA; CINEMAS Summary: "Explorations in New Cinema History presents an original approach to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences, the commercial activities of film exhibition and distribution, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange."-BOOK BLURB Notes: includes index ISBN: 9781405199506 Contents: Mapping cinema experiences. New cinema histories / Richard Maltby -- Methodologies : mapping cinema exhibition. Re-imagining the history of the experience of cinema in a post-moviegoing age / Robert C. Allen -- Putting cinema history on the map : using GIS to explore the spatiality of cinema / Jeffrey Klenotic -- What to do with cinema memory? / Annette Kuhn -- Distribution, programming and audiences. Social class, experiences of distinction and cinema in postwar Ghent / Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de Vijver -- Distribution and exhibition in the Netherlands, 1934-1936 / Clara Pafort-Overduin -- Patterns in first-run and suburban filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s / John Sedgwick -- Hollywood and its global audiences : a comparative study of the biggest box office hits in the US and outside the US since the 1970s / Peter Kra¨mer -- From Hollywood to the garden suburb (and back to Hollywood) : studies in exhibition and distribution in Australia / Mike Walsh -- Blindsiding : theatre owners, political action and industrial change in Hollywood, 1975-1985 / Deron Overpeck -- Venues and their publics. "No hits, no runs, just terrors" : exhibition, cultural distinctions and cult audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s / Tim Snelson and Mark Jancovich -- Going underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas : New York's subterranean film culture in the 1950s and 1960s / Peter Stanfield -- Searching for the Apollo : black moviegoing and its contexts in the small town U.S. South / Arthur Knight -- Film distribution in the diaspora : temporality, community and national cinema / Deb Verhoeven -- Cinema, modernity and the local. The social Biograph : newspapers as archives of the regional mass market for movies / Paul Moore -- Modernity for small town tastes : movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley -- Silent film genre, exhibition and audiences in South India / Stephen Hughes -- The last Bemboka picture show : 16mm cinema as rural community fundraiser in the 1950s / Kate Bowles ID2: 93 More info
Interim book		Hollywood abroad : audiences and cultural exchange / Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: bfi Publishing, 2004. Call No: 410 HOL Author: Stokes, Melvyn; Maltby, Richard CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Source: UK Place: London Publisher: bfi Publishing PubDate: 2004 PhysDes: 183 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; HISTORY OF CINEMA Summary: Examines the reaction of non-American audiences to Hollywood movies. Integrates work by a number of scholars assessing the reaction of audiences from Britain, Japan, France, Belgium, Turkey, Australia, India, Japan and Central Africa. Asserts that audience reaction is a “…complex adoption of ‘Hollywood’ into non American host cultures”. Notes: Includes notes and index. ISBN: 1 84457051 7 More info
Interim book		Hollywood Cinema / Richard Maltby Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Call No: 71(73) MAL Author: Maltby, Richard Edition: 2nd Source: UK Place: Oxford, UK Publisher: Blackwell Publishing PubDate: 2003 PhysDes: 696 p. ; 25 cm Subject: USA Notes: Appendix 1: The motion picture production code (as Published 31 March 1930); Appendix 2: Code and rating system, 1968: The code of self........; Appendix 3: The Classification and rating system: "What the Ratings Mean"; Includes ntes, bibliography and index. ISBN: 0631216154 More info
book		Hollywood spectatorship : changing perceptions of cinema audiences / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 2000. Call No: 410 HOL Author: Maltby, Richard, 1952; Stokes, Melvyn CorpAuthor: British Film Institute Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 2000 PhysDes: 240p. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; SPECTATORSHIP; AUDIENCE RECEPTION; SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE (US, Jonathan Demme, 1991); ALL ABOUT EVE (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950); FANTASIA (US, Walt Disney, 1940); CENSORSHIP. USA; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA. USA; ON THE BEACH (US, Stanley Kramer, 1959); ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS; CINEPHILIA ISBN: 0851708110; 0851708102(pbk.) : ¦15.99 LON: 21774778 More info
book		Identifying Hollywood's audiences : cultural identity and the movies / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby London: British Film Institute, 1999. Call No: 410(73) IDE Author: Maltby, Richard, 1952; Stokes, Melvyn Place: London Publisher: British Film Institute PubDate: 1999 PhysDes: 209 p. ; 24 cm Subject: AUDIENCES; AUDIENCE RESEARCH. USA; WOMEN AND THE CINEMA; FAMILY, FILMS FOR; VIOLENCE IN FILMS; HORROR FILMS; SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS; RKO; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992); JUDGE DREDD (US, Danny Cannon, 1995); MAYTIME (US, Robert Z. Leonard, 1937); PRETTY WOMAN (US, Garry Marshall, 1990) ISBN: 0851707386; 0851707394(pbk.) LON: 20062600 21256904 More info

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