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- Title
'Like Nickels in a Slot': Children of the American Working Classes at the Neighborhood Movie House.
- Authors
Klenotic, Jeffrey E.
- Abstract
Presents an ethnohistorical account of the social conditions of children's moviegoing during the late 1920s and early 1930s at the Strand theater in Springfield, Massachusetts. Analysis of Springfield's social geography and the location of the Strand theater's neighborhood; Cultural appeals which are evident in exhibition practices at the Strand; Description of the Strand's audience.
- Subjects
MASSACHUSETTS; SPRINGFIELD (Mass.); UNITED States; THEATERS; ETHNOHISTORY; MOTION picture audiences
- Publication
Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television, 2001, Issue 48, p20
- ISSN
0149-1830
- Publication type
Article