American movie audiences: from the turn of the century to the early sound era

Abstract

Introduction - reconstructing American cinema's audiences, Melvyn Stokes. Part 1 The social formation of audiences: Jewish immigrant audiences in New York City, 1905-1914, Judith Thissen Italian images, historical features films, and the fabrication of Italy's spectators in early 1920s New York, Giorgio Bertellini film and ethnic identity in Harlem, 1896-1915, Alison Griffiths, James Latham the formative and impressionable stage - discursive construction of the Nickelodeon's child audience, Roberta Pearson, William Urichio. Part 2 The politics of audiences: why the audience mattered in Chicago in 1907, Lee Grieveson the revolt of the audience - reconsidering audiences and reception during the silent era, Steven J. Ross viewing the viewers - representations of the audience in early cinema advertising, Kathryn Helgesen Fuller reminiscences of the past, conditions of the present - at the movies in Mill waukee in 1918, Leslie Midkiff DeBauche. Part 3 Audience and the coming of sound: this is where we came in - the voluble audience of early sound cinema, Thomas Doherty Hillbilly music and Well Rogers - small-town picture shows in the 1930s, Gregory A. Waller.