The Community of Cinema
Subtitle: How Cinema and Spectacle Transformed the American Downtown
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: April 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780275973551
Subjects: Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Sociology; Cinema/Film: Book; Communication; Film & Video - General; Media Studies - Electronic Media; Performing Arts / Film / General; Theater - General; 20th century; History; Motion picture theaters; Motion pictures; Social aspects; Social life and customs; United States
First sentence: Among the multitude of inventions Thomas Edison's laboratories worked on in the early 1890s, one area of research included experimenting with motion pictures.