The Exhibitor as Producer
This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What charact...
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| description | This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan palace cinemas but also in movie theaters in mid-sized cities and even small towns? If they generally created an atmosphere that complimented or harmonized with the feature films, could they also be what at the time was called “contrastive“? Who were the performers in these theatrical presentations? Were prologues ever described, in ads and audience responses, as a program’s main attraction and to what effect? The book comprises five chapters and up to a hundred photographs of prologue stage settings. Moreover, supplementing each chapter is one or more relevant trade press documents. Overall, the chapters construct a set of practices and typologies that came to define the theatrical presentations that typically preceded the feature films. They also advance this argument: the variety format of combined stage and screen performance in movie theaters has a longer and unexpectedly revealing history than usually assumed. In short, an exhibitor would have a certain degree of creativity in his/her programming, which in turn could strongly impact an audience’s movie-going experience. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1500922025-07-21T15:43:56Z The Exhibitor as Producer Abel, Richard stage prologues movie exhibition cinema exhibition American movie theaters stage blueprints early film history early cinema history thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTC Film, TV and Radio industries thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATY History of Performing Arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTC Film, TV and Radio industries thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATY History of Performing Arts This open access book seeks answers to a series of questions about the little studied subject of prologues or theatrical presentations in American movie theaters from the late 1910s to the mid-1920s. How did prologues emerge out of prior practices? Who were the exhibitors most involved? What characteristics would come to define prologues? How widespread did they become not only in metropolitan palace cinemas but also in movie theaters in mid-sized cities and even small towns? If they generally created an atmosphere that complimented or harmonized with the feature films, could they also be what at the time was called “contrastive“? Who were the performers in these theatrical presentations? Were prologues ever described, in ads and audience responses, as a program’s main attraction and to what effect? The book comprises five chapters and up to a hundred photographs of prologue stage settings. Moreover, supplementing each chapter is one or more relevant trade press documents. Overall, the chapters construct a set of practices and typologies that came to define the theatrical presentations that typically preceded the feature films. They also advance this argument: the variety format of combined stage and screen performance in movie theaters has a longer and unexpectedly revealing history than usually assumed. In short, an exhibitor would have a certain degree of creativity in his/her programming, which in turn could strongly impact an audience’s movie-going experience. 2025-01-21T04:38:47Z 2025-01-21T04:38:47Z 2025-01-13T13:43:58Z 2025 book ONIX_20250113_9783031717819_13 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96986 9783031717819 9783031717802 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150092 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96986/1/9783031717819.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-71781-9 10.1007/978-3-031-71781-9 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 65da4ce1-57c0-4367-a2f8-621551874b15 9949e817-5fb3-445a-bbe8-be1ed954285c 9783031717819 9783031717802 Palgrave Macmillan 199 Cham [...] University of Michigan Universitas Michigania 10.13039/100007270 open access |
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