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Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvii, 294 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prior to the advent of the home movie camera and the ubiquitousness of the camera phone, there was the local film. This cultural phenomenon, produced across the country from the 1890s to the 1950s, gave ordinary people a chance to be on the silver screen without leaving their hometowns. Through these movies, residents could see themselves in the same theaters where they saw major Hollywood motion pictures. Traveling filmmakers plied their trade in...
Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Thorp was a theater entrepreneur influential in bringing Black vaudeville and early movie theaters to Richmond, Virginia, and more widely to the southeastern US. Thorp, a White woman, opened theaters and nickelodeons exclusively for Black patrons during a period of entrenched segregation and outright opposition to Black patronage in the South. And though Thorp's mission was not expressly philanthropic, she nonetheless expanded access to early...
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