Screen traffic : movies, multiplexes, and global culture /
Acland, Charles R.,1963-
Durham, N.C. ; London : Duke University Press,
c2003.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-324) and index.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures