Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Welling, David, 1958-

Title Cinema Houston [electronic resource] : from Nickelodeon to Megaplex / David Welling ; foreword by Jack Valenti.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xviii, 332 p. : ill., map.
Series Roger Fullington series in architecture
Texas film and media studies series.
Roger Fullington series in architecture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-320) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Staged origins -- The nickelodeons -- Bigger and better -- The majestics -- The main three : the metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's state -- The later 1920s : you ain't heard nothing yet! -- Will Horwitz, philanthropist -- The neighborhood theatre, 1934-1949 -- Hoblitzelle's interstate -- Jim Crow and the ethnic theatre -- The fifties : the incredible 3-d wide-screen technicolor stereophonic-sound ballyhoo parade -- The drive-in : a view from the car seat -- The sixties : the times, they are a-changin' -- The x-houses -- From multicinema to multiplex : safety in numbers -- Let them eat candy : the concession stand -- Beyond the fringe : midnight movies and the alternative cinema -- Rediscovery in the age of the megaplex -- Perspectives : an afterword -- Notes.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Motion picture theaters -- Texas -- Houston.
Houston (Tex.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780292717008 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292717008 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only