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Zusatztext Featured on Turner Classic Movies website. http://www.tcm.com/this-month/movie-news.html?id=454632&name=The-Perils-of-Moviegoing-in-America-1896-1950 Informationen zum Autor Gary D. Rhodes, PhD, is currently Head of Area for Film Studies at The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of Lugosi (McFarland, 1997) and White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland, 2002). Rhodes has also written and directed a number of documentary films. Klappentext Recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema. Vorwort Recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema. Zusammenfassung During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. This title recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the first fifty years of the cinema. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Conflagration Chapter Two: Thieves Among Us Chapter Three: It's Catching Chapter Four: Bombs Away Chapter Five: The Devil's Apothecary Shops Chapter Six: The Sunday Blues Chapter Seven: Something for Nothing Bibliography
