| Description |
1 online resource (383 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Conflagration; Chapter 2; Thieves Among Us; Chapter 3; It's Catching; Chapter 4; Bombs Away; Chapter 5; The Devil's Apothecary Shops; Chapter 6; The Sunday Blues; Chapter 7; Something for Nothing; Endnotes; Index. |
| Summary |
During the first fifty years of the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers, molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease, both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined (""mo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion picture audiences -- United States.
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Motion picture audiences. |
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United States. |
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Motion picture audiences -- Crimes against.
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Motion picture theaters -- United States -- History.
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Motion picture theaters. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rhodes, Gary Don, 1972- Perils of Moviegoing in America : 1896-1950. New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, ©2012 xxiii, 358 pages 9781441110190 |
| ISBN |
9781441188656 (e-book) |
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1441188657 (e-book) |
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9781441110190 |
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9781441136107 |
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144113610X |
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