Cinemas in Britain
Subtitle: a history of cinema architecture
By: Richard Gray
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781848220720
Subjects: Motion picture theaters; Theater architecture; History
Notes: "Produced in collaboration with the Cinema Theatre Association."

Previous ed.: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Moving Image: Invention and pioneers; title: Films Find a Home: The Early Years; title: The Cinematograph Act: The Cinema Building Grows Up; title: The Edwardian Luxury Cinema; The Early 1920s: The First 'Super-Cinemas'; title: The American 'Movie Palace'; title: Hollywood in the West End; title: 'You ain't heard nothing yet!'; title: The Picture Palace in the late 1920s...and Into the Next Decade; title: 'Atmospherics' and Fantasy; title: The Granada Style; title: Transition in Cinema Architecture; title: Gaumont-British: Picture Palaces for the Nation; title: The Odeon Style; ABC and Union; title: The 1930s: Cinema Architects and Their Clients; title: Cinema Interiors: Designers and Decorators; title: Music for the Movies; title: The Expanding Screen, the Contracting Cinema; title: The Third Age of the Cinema; title: Glossary of Architectural Terms; title: 'Listed' Cinemas: A Future for the Past?; title: Gazetteer of British Cinema Buildings.