Product Details: Main Street Amusements
| Author: | Gregory A. Waller |
| Edited by: | Charles Musser |
| Format: | Paperback: 320 pages. |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Inst Pr (05/01/1995) |
| ISBN: | 156098547X |
| ISBN13: | 9781560985471 |
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Pro Reviews: Main Street Amusements
...a valuable portrait of how a city and its culture were altered by the foreces of technology as well as an instructive history of early 20th-century culture wars that anticipated our own heated battles of today.
Publisher Notes: Main Street Amusements
- Surveying the growth of local movie and vaudeville theaters from 1906 to 1916, Waller analyzes reform efforts and protest campaigns that concerned theater safety codes, Sunday film showings, censorship, and, most notably, the highly controversial screening of The Birth of a Nation. Providing both the black and white civic and church responses to these developments, he demonstrates how the emergence of movies fostered the rise of Lexington's contradictory self-image as both a cosmopolitan center and a guardian of traditional southern values. Greeted at times with suspicion and contempt, movies gradually won the hearts of Lexingtonians because movie-hall owners convinced the public that the movies' promise of pleasure rested safely within the bounds of middle-class propriety. Covering movies exhibited from before World War I through the 1920s, Main Street Amusements provides a unique perspective on the rise of popular culture below the Mason Dixon Line.
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