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The Perils of Moviegoing in America - 1896-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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The Perils of Moviegoing in America - 1896-1950 (Hardcover, New)
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This title recaptures the lost history of the physical and moral
perils that faced audiences at American movie theatres during the
first fifty years of the cinema. During the first fifty years of
the American cinema, the act of going to the movies was a risky
process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral
dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were
movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during
the Great Depression. Labor disputes provoked a large number of
movie theatre bombings, while low-level criminals like murderers,
molesters, and prostitutes plied their trades in the darkened
auditoriums. That was all in addition to the spread of disease,
both real (as in the case of influenza) and imagined ("movie
eyestrain"). Audiences also confronted an array of perceived moral
dangers. Blue Laws prohibited Sunday film screenings, though
theatres ignored them in many areas, sometimes resulting in the
arrests of entire audiences. Movie theatre lotteries became another
problem, condemned by politicians and clergymen throughout America
for being immoral gambling. "The Perils of Moviegoing in America:
1896-1950" provides the first history of the many threats that
faced film audiences, threats which claimed hundreds, if not
thousands, of lives.
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