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9780822331636

Screen Traffic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822331636

  • ISBN10:

    0822331632

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-11-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

"We need a book about global audiences that is smart about theory and chock-full of facts. Charles R. Acland has delivered one, an incisive blend of cultural and cinema studies. Buy it, get it, plunder it!"--Toby Miller, coauthor of "Global Hollywood"

Author Biography

Charles R. Acland is associate professor of communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures, vii
Acknowledgments, ix
I. THEORIZING CONTEMPORARY CINEMAGOING
1. Global Audiences and the Current Cinema,
3(20)
2. Traveling Cultures, Mutating Commodities,
23(22)
3. Matinees, Summers, and the Practice of Cinemagoing,
45(40)
II. STRUCTURES OF CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE
4. Crisis and Settlement in Exhibition and Distribution,
85(22)
5. "Here Come the Megaplexes,"
107(23)
6. Zones and Speeds of International Cinematic Life,
130(33)
7. Northern Screens,
163(33)
8. The Miniaturization of the Theme Park, or After the "Death" of Cinema,
196(33)
9. Cinemagoing as "Felt Internationalism,"
229(18)
APPENDICES
1. Screens per Million Population,
247(3)
2. World Screen Count,
250(3)
3. National Average Cinema Admissions per Person (annual),
253(3)
4. Multiplexing in Europe,
256(1)
5. MPAA's Goals for Digital Cinema,
257(2)
6. Existing Digital Cinemas, 2000,
259(2)
7. Digital Movies Released for DLP Projectors,
261(2)
Notes, 263(36)
Bibliography, 299(26)
Index, 325

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