The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896-1950
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:23rd Jul '12
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What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen? This is the first scholarly work to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers. He considers patterns of cinema-going and attendance levels, as well as changes in audience preferences for different genres, stars or national origins of films. The thematic chapters broaden out the discussion of cinema-going to consider the wider social and cultural impact of this early form of mass leisure. Trevor Griffiths’ book is a major contribution to the growing body of work on the history and significance of British film Key Features First major study of early Scottish filmNew archives and researchFascinating diary entriesEarly cinema as businessImportant addition to Scottish film studies Key words: cinema, Scotland, history, cinema-going, society, films, Scottish
This is an excellent book. It provides fascinating evidence of the peculiarities of national cinema, while revealing how cinema managers and their audiences could exert considerable agency in the leisure process. Most of all, it reveals how fruitful the localised study of cinema can be for historians. -- Robert James, University of Portsmouth * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *
This is an excellent book. It provides fascinating evidence of the peculiarities of national cinema, while revealing how cinema managers and their audiences could exert considerable agency in the leisure process. Most of all, it reveals how fruitful the localised study of cinema can be for historians. -- Robert James, University of Portsmouth * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *
Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland is a hugely impressive, detailed piece of scholarship. It should be recommended not only to Scottish historians but also to cinema historians everywhere, to social and cultural historians, and to those interested in national identity in twentieth century Scotland, and Britain. -- James J. Nott, University of St Andrews * International Review of Scottish Studies *
The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland not only takes Scottish film studies into important new territory, it also offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the broader historical development of cinema exhibition in Britain. -- Duncan Petrie, University of York * Journal of British Cinema and Television, Volume 11, Issue 2-3 *
This densely researched book meets a number of pressing needs in the field of Scottish and British film studies, but it is also likely to prove a significant resource for a range of other disciplines, not least in its contribution to our understandings of Scottish popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century. -- Joe Kember, University of Exeter * Journal of Scottish Historical Studies *
‘A major contribution to the history of popular culture in Scotland.’ -- John Burnett * Review of Scottish Culture *
Trevor Griffiths has produced an exceptional monograph...it should be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students of popular culture and film studies, but the value of this book is greater than this. Historians of business, economics, and the inter-war period will find this an extremely useful text that is accessible, very well researched, and set within the political, economic, and socio-cultural context of the years 1896 to 1950. -- Annmarie Hughes * The Economic History Review Vol 67 Issue 2 *
A fascinating book. -- RICK INSTRELL * The Scotsman *
ISBN: 9780748638284
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 693g
360 pages