Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture

by Haidee Wasson

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-clack of small machines that transformed home, classroom, museum, community, government, industrial, and military venues into sites of moving-image display. Reorienting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520331680
• ISBN13: 9780520331686
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"