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- Title
Ethnic cinema in the nickelodeon era in New York City: Commerce, Assimilation and Cultural Identity.
- Authors
Mullins, Patrick
- Abstract
The article considers the ethnic identity as a determining factor for patterns of film exhibition and spectatorship during the nickelodeon period in New York City. Majority of accounts of nickelodeons relate the experience of a number of non-English speaking immigrant audiences for whom film viewing was likely more than just an entertaining diversion. A list of film companies from 1902 to 1911 demonstrates an increase in ethnic owned cinemas and proposes a degree of mutual involvement by ethnic film exhibitors and spectators in New York's motion picture industry at the rise of the nickelodeon period.
- Subjects
UNITED States; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); ETHNICITY; MOTION picture industry; NICKELODEON theaters; AUDIENCES; MOTION picture theaters
- Publication
Film History, 2000, Vol 12, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article