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From silent screen to multi-screen
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Stuart Hanson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-04 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present. Charting the development of cine
Reel Change
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Richard Wallace
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-16 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Ten years ago, a technological revolution swept through cinemas around the world, as analogue projectors were replaced with digital equipment. It was not just t
Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Sam Manning
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-31 - Publisher: University of London Press

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Cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity in the first half of the twentieth century, peaking in 1946 with 1.6 billion recorded admissions.
Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 413
Authors: Farmer Richard Farmer
Categories: Motion pictures
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-03 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Over half a century on, the 1960s continue to generate strong intellectual and emotional responses - both positive and negative - and this is no less true in th
Conjuring Science
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Sofie Lachapelle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-07 - Publisher: Springer

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Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurr