American Showman : : Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, 1908-1935 / / Ross Melnick.
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in sil...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Film and Culture Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (576 p.) :; ‹B›27 black-and-white photos‹/B› |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE. ROXY AND SILENT FILM EXHIBITION
- 1. A New Art for a New Art Form (1908-1913)
- 2. Broadway Melody (1913-1917)
- 3. The Movie House as Recruiting Center (1917-1918)
- 4. "The Man Who Gave the Movies a College Education" (1919-1922)
- PART TWO. ROXY AND THE EMERGENCE OF CONVERGENCE
- 5. A Capitol Idea (1922-1925)
- 6. "It's the Roxy and I'm Roxy" (1925-1927)
- 7. It's All Playing in Sheboygan (1928-1931)
- 8. The Prologue Is Past (1931-1936)
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Film and Culture