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Paperback At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture Book

ISBN: 0813920825

ISBN13: 9780813920825

At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and the Creation of Movie Fan Culture

The motion picture industry in its earliest days seemed as ephemeral as the flickering images it produced. Considered an amusement fad even by their exhibitors, movies nevertheless spread quickly from big-city vaudeville houses to towns and rural communities across the nation. Small-town audiences, looking for more than the lurid melodramas and slapstick comedies popular in cities, often lined up to see films with conservative and educational themes:...

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