Author: Tom Stempel
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: moviegoing, movies, audiences, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-01-25
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0813121833
ISBN-13: 9780813121833

" A unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience’s point of view. Tom Stempel goes beyond the comments of professional reviewers, concentrating on the opinions of ordinary people. He traces shifting trends in genre and taste, examining and questioning the power films have in American society. Stempel blends audience response with his own observations and analyzes box office results that identify the movies people actually went to see, not just those praised by the critics. Avoiding statistical summary, he presents the results of a survey on movies and movi

Author: Richard W. Haines
Publisher: McFarland
Keywords: experience, moviegoing
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-02-03
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786413611
ISBN-13: 9780786413614

The experience of going to the movies, be it a single screen theater, twin, multiplex or drive-in, is affected by many different factors that have shifted over the years. Just as movies emerged from silent to talking, black and white to color, there has invariably been change in the way movies are made, copied, distributed and viewed. This change in the moviegoing experience, for better or for worse, is worth studying. This work examines the American moviegoing experience from 1968 to 2001--the way in which movies are made and regulated (including the demise of the Production Code and the em