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The Perils of Moviegoing in America Hardback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Gary D. Rhodes

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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 ("movie eyestrain").
Audiences also confronted an array of perceived moral dangers. Blue Laws prohibited Sunday film screenings, though theatres ignored them in many areas, sometimes resulting in the arrests of entire audiences. Movie theatre lotteries became another problem, condemned by politicians and clergymen throughout America for being immoral gambling.
The Perils of Moviegoing in America: 1896-1950 provides the first history of the many threats that faced film audiences, threats which claimed hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.

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  • Title The Perils of Moviegoing in America
  • Author Gary D. Rhodes
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication date 2011-11-24
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781441110190 / 1441110194
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1 in (21.59 x 14.73 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Film
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.234

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Gary D. Rhodes, PhD, is currently Head of Area for Film Studies at The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of Lugosi (McFarland, 1997) and White Zombie: Anatomy of a Horror Film (McFarland, 2002). Rhodes has also written and directed a number of documentary films.

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