The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896-1950

by Trevor Griffiths

Book Overview

What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen?

This is the first scholarly work to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748685219
• ISBN13: 9780748685219
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher