At the turn of the past century; the main function of a newspaper was to offer ldquo;menusrdquo; by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers; distributors; exhibitors; and the rapidly expanding audience of fans. This writing about the movies arguably played a crucial role in the emergence of American popular film culture; negotiating among national; regional; and local interests to shape fansrsquo; ephemeral experience of moviegoing; their repeated encounters with the fantasy worlds of ldquo;movieland;rdquo; and their attractions to certain stories and stars. Moreover; many of these weekend pages; daily columns; and film reviews were written and consumed by women; including one teenage girl who compiled a rare surviving set of scrapbooks. Based on extensive original research; Menus for Movieland substantially revises what moviegoing meant in the transition to what we now think of as Hollywood.
#3761704 in eBooks 2015-07-27 2015-07-27File Name: B012Q2HJ30
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