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High-Class Moving Pictures - Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition, 1880-1920 (Paperback)
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High-Class Moving Pictures - Lyman H. Howe and the Forgotten Era of Traveling Exhibition, 1880-1920 (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The entrepreneur of phonograph concerts and motion-picture programs
Lyman H. Howe was the leading traveling exhibitor of his time and
the exemplar of an important but until now little examined aspect
of American popular culture. This work, with its numerous and
lively illustrations, uses his career to explore the world of
itinerant showmen, who exhibited all motion pictures seen outside
large cities during the 1890s and early 1900s. They frequently
built cultural alliances with genteel city dwellers or conservative
churchgoers and in later years favored "high-class" topics
appealing to audiences uncomfortable with the plebeian
nickelodeons. Bridging the fields of American studies and film
history, the book reveals the remarkable sophistication with which
exhibitors created their elaborate, evening-length programs to
convey powerful ideological messages. Whether depicting the
Spanish-American War, the 1900 Paris Exposition, or British
colonialism in action, Howe's "cinema of reassurance" had many
parallels with the music of John Philip Sousa. Originally published
in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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