Cinema Houston : from Nickelodeon to Megaplex / / David Welling ; foreword by Jack Valenti.

• Superior document: Roger Fullington series in architecture
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Welling, David, 1958-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Texas film and media studies series.; Roger Fullington series in architecture.
• Physical Description: xviii, 332 p. :; ill., map.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Staged origins
• The nickelodeons
• Bigger and better
• The majestics
• The main three : the metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's state
• The later 1920s : you ain't heard nothing yet!
• Will Horwitz, philanthropist
• The neighborhood theatre, 1934-1949
• Hoblitzelle's interstate
• Jim Crow and the ethnic theatre
• The fifties : the incredible 3-d wide-screen technicolor stereophonic-sound ballyhoo parade
• The drive-in : a view from the car seat
• The sixties : the times, they are a-changin'
• The x-houses
• From multicinema to multiplex : safety in numbers
• Let them eat candy : the concession stand
• Beyond the fringe : midnight movies and the alternative cinema
• Rediscovery in the age of the megaplex
• Perspectives : an afterword
• Notes.