Lost movie theatres: Movie-going in a cross-border city
Lost Movie Theatres explores the role movies, movie-going, theatre architecture, and community values played in city-building in Niagara Falls, Ontario, boosted by hometown newspapers, from early 20th century, through wartime, to the decline of core business and drift to urban sprawl and suburbia, malls and multiplexes.
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- ISBN: 9780978446437
- Physical Description 256 pages : coloured illustrations ; 21 cm
- Publisher St. Catharines : Niagara Artists Centre , 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Companion volume: Disappearing motels. Forward by Barry Keith Grant. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Maps -- Preface -- Forward -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Breaking News -- Chapter Two: Downtown -- -- Chapter Three: Midtown -- Chapter Four: Uptown -- Chapter Five: Drive-ins -- Drawing Conclusions -- Appendix One -- Appendix Two -- Index. |
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