Exploring the history, sociology and urban geography of the range of venues in which films have been seen, this title traces the emergence of movie-going as a cultural phenomenon.
By dramatizing the intersection of self-interested capitalism and foundational violence in a mining camp in 1870s South Dakota, the HBO series Deadwood reinvented the television Western. In this volume, Ina Rae Hark examines the groundbreaking series from a variety of angles: its relationship to past iterations of the genre on the small screen, its production context, both within the HBO paradigm and as part of the oeuvre of its creator and sh...
Probably no decade saw as many changes in the Hollywood film industry and its product as the 1930s did. By 1939, popularly called "Hollywood's Greatest Year, " films like Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz used both color and sound to spectacular effect, and remain American icons today. The "mature oligopoly" that was the studio system had not only weathered the Depression and become part of mainstream culture through the establishment an...
Star Trek remains the original, iconic and, for its many fans, the best example of tv science fiction, boldly going where no tv drama had gone before. Ina Rae Hark's lively account of all five series provides a comprehensive guide to the Trek universe and its key themes, and offers new insights for even the most hardcore Trekker.
From the kinetoscope to the Movie Palaces of Hollywood's golden age, to today's multiplexes, the experience of watching films has varied enormously across film history. "Exhibition, The Film Reader" traces the emergence of a culture of movie going, exploring the range of venues in which films have been shown, and following the fluctuating fortunes of film and its continuing struggle to win audiences. Contributors explore the meanings conveyed ...
