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Informationen zum Autor Stuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester Klappentext The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening - the Lumière Brothers' showing of their Cinématographe show at London's Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 - through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. Zusammenfassung The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening – the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 – through to the development of the multiplex and megaplex cinema. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 From the fairground to the picture palace: 1896 - 19132 Post-war consolidation, the coming of sound and Hollywood: 1913 - 19303 Cinema as mass entertainment: 1930 - 19504 From 'golden age' to the beginnings of decline: 1950 - 19605 Sub-dividing and falling, and the lessons from the United States: 1960s - 19846 The multiplex revolution: 1985 - present7 The future for cinema exhibition in the digital ageSelect bibliography
