Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States

by Douglas Gomery

Shared Pleasures presents the first comprehensive history of how Americans have watched their favorite movies. Douglas Gomery tells the complete story of the film exhibition business, from the humble nickelodeon to movie palaces to today's mass markets of cable TV and home video rentals. Along the way Gomery shows us how the American economy and society altered going to the movies.

Shared Pleasures answers such questions as:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299132145
• ISBN13: 9780299132149
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"