The role of the immigrant audience in the development of motion pictures.

Title: The role of the immigrant audience in the development of motion pictures.
Identifier: AAI9405599
identifier: 9405599
Creator: Weiss, Ken.
Contributor: Adviser: William Kornblum
Date: 1993
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Recreation | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies | Cinema
Abstract: Thesis proposes that the working class audience for moving pictures during the nickelodeon era (1907-1914) appropriated the neighborhood theaters, strongly influenced the content and method of presentation of moving pictures, and retarded middle class acceptance of the new medium.;While quantifiable data is scarce, evidence suggests that there was some degree of appropriation of neighborhood theaters, which functioned effectively as parts of the public sphere. There is little evidence to indicate that the working class audience strongly influenced the content of moving pictures in general, but substantial reason to believe that the immigrant working class audience did strongly influence the content and method of presentation of films within their own neighborhoods, which in turn may have influenced the availability of films to outlying, presumably middle class, areas. There is also evidence that the working class, both directly and indirectly, did impede middle class acceptance of moving pictures.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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