The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture - Couverture souple

Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0190689366 ISBN 13 : 9780190689360

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2018

Synopsis

Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the massive movie palace to the intimate streamlined theater, movie theaters became neutralized spaces for calibrated, immersive watching. Leading this charge was New York architect Benjamin Schlanger, a fiery polemicist whose designs and essays reshaped how movies were watched. In its close examination of Schlanger's work and of changing patterns of spectatorship, this book reveals that the essence of film viewing lies not only in the text, but in the spaces where movies are shown. The Optical Vacuum demonstrates that our changing models of cinephilia are always determined by physical structure: from the decorations of the palace to the black box of the contemporary auditorium, variations in movie theater design are icons for how viewing has similarly transformed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research focuses on spectatorship, exhibition, technology, and American film history, and she has published in various journals and books including Screen, Film History, Color and the Moving Image, World Picture, and 2ha.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0190689366
• ISBN 13: 9780190689360
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 210
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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