When Movies Were Theater - Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780231176576
Subjects: Motion picture theaters; Theaters, construction
Description: There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events onscreen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's '2001'. The study matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.