Main entry:

Welling, David, 1958-

Title & Author:

Cinema Houston : from Nickelodeon to Megaplex / David Welling ; foreword by Jack Valenti.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

Description:

xviii, 332 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm.

Series:

Roger Fullington series in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320) and index.
Introduction -- Staged origins -- The nickelodeons -- Bigger and better -- The majestics -- The main three : the metropolitan, the Kirby, and Loew's state -- The later 1920s : you ain't heard nothing yet! -- Will Horwitz, philanthropist -- The neighborhood theatre, 1934-1949 -- Hoblitzelle's interstate -- Jim Crow and the ethnic theatre -- The fifties : the incredible 3-d wide-screen technicolor stereophonic-sound ballyhoo parade -- The drive-in : a view from the car seat -- The sixties : the times, they are a-changin' -- The x-houses -- From multicinema to multiplex : safety in numbers -- Let them eat candy : the concession stand -- Beyond the fringe : midnight movies and the alternative cinema -- Rediscovery in the age of the megaplex -- Perspectives : an afterword -- Notes.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780292717008 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0292717008 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Motion picture theaters Texas Houston.
Buildings.
Motion picture theaters.
Biografer, USA, Houston.
Houston (Tex.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Texas Houston.

Added entries:

Roger Fullington series in architecture.
Texas film and media studies series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257189
Call No.: BIB 187636
Status: Available