Screen Traffic - Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture

A study of Hollywood, the internaitonal markets, and the way movies are actually shown in theaters.

List of contents

List of Tables and Figures vii

Acknowledgments ix

I. Theorizing Contemporary Cinemagoing

1. Global Alliances and the Current Cinema 3

2. Traveling Cultures, Mutating Commodities 23

3. Matinees, Summers, and the Practice of Cinemagoing 45

II. Structures of Cinematic Experience

4. Crisis and Settlement in Exhibition and Distribution 85

5. "Here Come the Megaplexes" 107

6. Zones and Speeds of International Cinematic Life 130

7. Northern Screens 163

8. The Miniaturization of the Theme Park, or After the "Death" of Cinema 196

9. Cinemagoing as "Felt Internationalism" 229

Appendices

1. Screens per Million Population 247

2. World Screen Count 250

3. National Average Cinema Admissions per Person (annual) 253

4. Multiplexing in Europe 256

5. MPAA's Goals for Digital Cinema 257

6. Existing Digital Cinemas, 2000 259

7. Digital Movies Released for DLP Projectors 261

Notes 263

Bibliography 299

Index 325

About the author

Charles R. Acland

Summary

Looks at how the commercial movie industry has altered conceptions of movie going both within the industry and among audiences. This title shows how studios, in their increasing reliance on revenues from audiences around the world, have cultivated a global understanding of their products over the years.

Product details

• Authors: Acland, Charles R Acland, Charles R. Acland
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2003
• EAN: 9780822331759
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3175-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 612 g
• Illustrations: 16 illus., 34 tables
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Film, Kino, Fernsehen, TV, Film-, Fernseh- und Radioindustrie