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The Dangers and Pleasures of Moviegoing: Black Girls in Harlem's Movie Theaters before World War II.

Authors : Lopez, Alyssa (AUTHOR)

Subjects: MOTION picture theaters; WORLD War II; PUBLIC spacesHARLEM (New York, N.Y.); NEW York (State)

Source: Journal of African American History. Summer2022, Vol. 107 Issue 3, p370-396. 27p.

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Can the Drive-in Be Saved?

Authors : Breznican, Anthony

Subjects: DRIVE-in theaters; MOTION picture theaters; AUTOMOBILES & societyBARKHAMSTED (Conn.); UNITED States

Source: Entertainment Weekly. 7/24/2015, Issue 1373, p46-47. 2p. 2 Color Photographs.

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The Great White Way and the Way of All Flesh: Metropolitan Film Culture and the Business of Film Exhibition in Times Square, 1929-1941.

Authors : BRENNAN, NATHANIEL

Subjects: TIMES Square (New York, N.Y.); MOTION picture theaters; THEATERSNEW York (N.Y.); UNITED States; NEW York (State)

Source: Film History. Jun2015, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p1-32. 32p. 3 Black and White Photographs, 1 Illustration, 1 Diagram.

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CINEMATIC ENCOUNTERS IN BEIJING.

Authors : Neves, Joshua

Subjects: MOTION picture industry; MOTION picture theaters; CHINESE filmsCHINA

Source: Film Quarterly. Fall2013, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p27-40. 14p.

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Spectacles of Conspicuous Consumption: Picture Palaces, War Profiteers and the Social Dynamics of Moviegoing in the Netherlands, 1914-1922.

Authors : van der Velden, Andr; Thissen, Judith

Subjects: MOTION pictures; MOTION picture theaters; MOTION pictures & societyNETHERLANDS

Source: Film History. 2010, Vol. 22 Issue 4, p453-462. 10p. 3 Black and White Photographs, 1 Illustration, 1 Chart.

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Tinseltown Turnabout.

Authors : Moskowitz, Daniel B.

Subjects: MOTION picture industry; GREAT Depression, 1929-1939; MOTION picture studiosUNITED States

Source: American History. Oct2020, Vol. 55 Issue 4, p50-57. 8p. 13 Black and White Photographs.

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Splitsville: Independent Exhibitors Court Federal Intervention in the American Film Industry, 1975-1988.

Authors : Overpeck, Deron

Subjects: MOTION picture industry; CONSENT decrees; ANTITRUST lawUNITED States

Source: Film History. Mar2014, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p136-157. 22p.

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"Filipinos are the Dandies of the Foreign Colonies": Race, Labor Struggles, and the Transpacific Routes of Hollywood and Philippine Films, 1924-1948.

Authors : Khor, Denise

Subjects: FILIPINO Americans; JAPANESE business enterprises; THEATER audiencesPHILIPPINES; UNITED States

Source: Pacific Historical Review. Aug2012, Vol. 81 Issue 3, p371-403. 33p.

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ACCESS NOLLYWOOD: A new wave of Nigerian cinema sets out to entertain a rising middle class.

Authors : WITT, EMILY

Subjects: NOLLYWOOD; NNAJI, Genevieve; MULTIPLEX theaters

Source: World Policy Journal. Winter2017, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p93-99. 7p.

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Memories in Context: The Social and Economic Function of Cinema in 1950s Rome.

Authors : GENNARI, DANIELA TREVERI; SEDGWICK, JOHN

Subjects: MOTION pictures; HISTORY of Rome (Italy), 1945-; MOTION pictures & societyITALY

Source: Film History. Jun2015, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p76-104. 29p. 7 Charts, 2 Graphs.

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