Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II,...
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Author: Haidee Wasson
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Language: English
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Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture by Wasson, Haidee

Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture

$103.88

Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture

$103.88
Author: Haidee Wasson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-clack of small machines that transformed home, classroom, museum, community, government, industrial, and military venues into sites of moving-image display. Reorienting the history of cinema away from the magic of the movie theater, Haidee Wasson illustrates the remarkable persistence and proliferation of devices that fundamentally rejected the sleek, highly professionalized film show. She foregrounds instead another kind of apparatus, one that was accessible, affordable, adaptable, easy to use, and crucially, programmable. Revealing rich archival discoveries, this book charts a compelling and original history of film that brings to light new technologies and diverse forms of media engagement that continue to shape contemporary life.



Author: Haidee Wasson
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/10/2020
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520331693


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Haidee Wasson is Professor of Film and Media at Concordia University, Montreal. She is author of the award-winning Museum Movies and coeditor of several books, including Useful Cinema and Cinema's Military Industrial Complex.

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