Everyday Movies

Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture

AvHaidee Wasson

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-clack of small machines that transformed home, classroom, museum, community, government, industrial, and military venues into sites of moving-image display. Reorienting the history of cinema away from the magic of the movie theater, Haidee Wasson illustrates the remarkable persistence and proliferation of devices that fundamentally rejected the sleek, highly professionalized film show. She foregrounds instead another kind of apparatus, one that was accessible, affordable, adaptable, easy to use, and crucially, programmable. Revealing rich archival discoveries, this book charts a compelling and original history of film that brings to light new technologies and diverse forms of media engagement that continue to shape contemporary life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520331693

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Haidee Wasson is Professor of Film and Media at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of the award-winning Museum Movies and coeditor of several books, including Useful Cinema and Cinema's Military Industrial Complex.

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"A definitive accounting of the rise of small-gauge film cultures in the United States. Through meticulous research, sophisticated argumentation, and a strong sense of what was truly significant about portable cinema, Wasson has written a book that will help ensure, from now on, that film historians, theorists, and students think of the cinema as belonging not just to the theater, but also to the portable projectors that made movies possible everywhere they went."

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Portability and Projectability1. Engineering Portability: The Rise of Suitcase Cinema2. Spectacular Portability: Cinema’s Exhibitory Complex, American Industry, and the 1939 World's Fair3. Mobilizing Portability: The American Military and Film Projectors4. Portable Projectors and the Electronic AgeEpilogue: Vectors of Portable CinemaNotesBibliographyIndex