Cinema Houston : : From Nickelodeon to Megaplex /

Cinema Houston : : From Nickelodeon to Megaplex / / David Welling.

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Cinema Houston celebrates a vibrant century of movie theatres and moviegoing in Texas's largest city. Illustrated with more than two hundred historical photographs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements, it traces the history of Houston movie theatres from their early twentieth-century beginn...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Welling, David,
MitwirkendeR:
Valenti, Jack,
TeilnehmendeR:
Valenti, Jack.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Staged Origins
  • Two. The Nickelodeons
  • Three. Bigger and Better
  • Four. The Majestics
  • Five. The Main Three: The Metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew’s State
  • Six. The Later 1920s: You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet!
  • Seven. Will Horwitz, Philanthropist
  • Eight. The Neighborhood Theatre, 1934–1949
  • Nine. Hoblitzelle’s Intersta
  • Ten. Jim Crow and the Ethnic Thea
  • Eleven. The Fifties: The Incredible 3-D Wide-Screen Technicolor Stereophonic-Sound Ballyhoo Parade
  • Twelve. The Drive-in: A View from the Car Seat
  • Thirteen. The Sixties: The Times, They Are A-Changin’
  • Fourteen. The X-Houses
  • Fifteen. From Multicinema to Multiplex: Safety in Numbers
  • Sixteen. Let Them Eat Candy: The Concession Stand
  • Seventeen. Beyond the Fringe: Midnight Movies and the Alternative Cinema
  • Eighteen. Rediscovery in the Age of the Megaplex
  • Nineteen. Perspectives: An Afterword Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: Indigenous Law
  • Part I: Colonial Period
  • 1. Conquest and Colonization
  • 2. Structures and Courts
  • 3. Legal Education and Lawyers
  • 4. Sources
  • 5. Personal Status
  • 6. Land and Inheritance
  • 7. Commercial Law
  • 8. Slavery
  • 9. Indian Status and Indian Land
  • Part II: Independence and the Nineteenth Century
  • 10. Constitutions, Codes, Caudillos, andCommerce
  • 11. Private Law and Independence
  • 12. Structures and Courts
  • 13. Legal Education and Lawyers
  • 14. Sources
  • 15. Codification
  • 16. Personal Status
  • 17. Land and Inheritance
  • 18. Commercial Law
  • Part III: The Twentieth Century
  • 19. From Europe to America
  • 20. Structures and Courts
  • 21. Legal Education and Lawyers
  • 22. Sources
  • 23. Personal Status
  • 24. Land and Inheritance
  • 25. Commercial Law
  • 26. Land Reform
  • 27. Development, Investment, Globa-- Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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