American Showman

Autorentext
Ross Melnick is assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in cinema and media studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a postdoctoral fellowship from Emory University. He has worked as a curator at the Museum of the Moving Image and in marketing for Loews Cineplex, Miramax, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and DreamWorks, and in film distribution for Sony Pictures. With Andreas Fuchs, he is the coauthor of Cinema Treasures.

Klappentext
Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel (1882-1936) built an extraordinary career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. The first book devoted to his multifaceted life and career, American Showman examines Rothafel's role as the key purveyor of a new film exhibition aesthetic that attracted audiences across economic classes and boundaries and his development of a new, convergent entertainment industry.

Inhalt
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Roxy and Silent Film Exhibition1. A New Art for a New Art Form (1908--1913)2. Broadway Melody (1913--1917)3. The Movie House as Recruiting Center (1917--1918)4. "The Man Who Gave the Movies a College Education" (1919--1922)Part 2. Roxy and the Emergence of Convergence5. A Capitol Idea (1922--1925)6. "It's the Roxy and I'm Roxy" (1925--1927)7. It's All Playing in Sheboygan (1928--1931)8. The Prologue Is Past (1931--1936)AfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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