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The optical vacuum : spectatorship and modernized American theater architecture /

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Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the massive urban movie palace to the intimate streamlined theater, movie theatres became 'neutralized' spaces for calibrated, immersive watching. Leading this charge was New York ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford Uninversity Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
Motion picture audiences > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion picture theaters > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Cinéma > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Cinéma > Publics > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 20e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Manners and customs
Motion picture audiences
Motion picture theaters
Motion pictures > Social aspects
United States
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Nostalgia for the dark: Ben Schlanger and the beginning of neutralization, 1920-1932
  • A field of light: optics and the demasked screen, 1932-1952
  • A mobile gaze through time and space: neutralization in the era of widescreen, 1950-1960
  • Cinephilia in ruins: an audience of the elite, 1960-1970
  • Coda
  • Index.