American showman
Subtitle: Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the birth of the entertainment industry, 1908-1935
By: Ross Melnick
Series: Film and culture
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231159043
Subjects: Motion picture theaters; Motion picture theater owners; Businessmen; Radio broadcasters; Motion picture industry; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Roxy and silent film exhibition (1908-1922). A new art for a new art form: Roxy and the development of motion picture exhibition (1908-1913); title: Broadway melody: Roxy, Riesenfeld, and the deluxe theater movement (1913-1917); title: The movie house as recruiting center: Roxy, World War I documentaries, and the engineering of consent (1917-1918); title: "The man who gave the movies a college education": Roxy, Rapee, and motion pictures at the Capitol Theatre (1919-1922); title: Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1936). A capitol idea: Roxy and the birth of media convergence (1922-1925); title: "It's the Roxy and I'm Roxy": building the brand and the Roxy Theatre (1925-1927); title: It's all playing in Sheboygan: Roxy, Rapee, and the emergence of convergence (1928-1931); title: The prologue is past: Roxy, media divergence, and Radio City Music Hall (1931-1936); title: Conclusion.