| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : portability and projectability -- Engineering portability : the rise of suitcase cinema -- Spectacular portability : cinema's exhibitionary complex, American industry, and the 1939 world's fair -- Mobilizing portability : the American military and film projectors -- Portable projectors and the electronic age -- Epilogue : vectors of portable cinema |
| Summary |
"Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen. Rather, it unreeled alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-clack of small machines that transformed home, classroom, museum, community, government, industrial, and military venues into sites of moving-image display. Reorienting the history of cinema away from the movie theater's magic, Haidee Wasson illustrates the remarkable persistence and proliferation of devices that fundamentally rejected the sleek, highly professionalized film show. She foregrounds instead another kind of apparatus, one that was accessible, affordable, adaptable, easy-to-use, and crucially, programmable. With rich archival discoveries, this book charts a compelling and original history of film, one that brings to light new technologies and diverse forms of media engagement that continue to shape contemporary life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion picture projectors -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion picture projectors. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Technological innovations -- History -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Technological innovations. |
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Motion pictures. |
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Cinematography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Cinematography. |
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United States. |
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wasson, Haidee, 1970- Everyday movies Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520331686 (DLC) 2020014430 (OCoLC)1142903605 |
| ISBN |
0520974379 electronic book |
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9780520974371 (electronic book) |
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9780520331686 hardcover |
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0520331680 hardcover |
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9780520331693 paperback |
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0520331699 paperback |
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