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The optical vacuum : spectatorship and modernized American theater architecture
Title
The optical vacuum : spectatorship and modernized American theater architecture / Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece.
ISBN
9780190689391 (ebook) :
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford Uninversity Press, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 1, 2018).
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Summary
Between the 1920s and the 1960s, American mainstream cinematic architecture underwent a seismic shift. From the massive urban movie palace to the intimate streamlined theater, movie theatres 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. This text examines the impact of Schlanger's work in the context of changing patterns of spectatorship; his theatres and writing propose that the essence of film viewing lies not only in the text, but in the spaces where movies are shown.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 21, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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