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- Title
DISEASE TRANSMISSION AND THEATRES: CREATING RESPECTABLE SPACES.
- Authors
CANNING, GREGORY
- Abstract
This article will investigate the perceived dangers that motion picture theatres posed to audiences in the Maritime provinces of Canada at the beginning of the twentieth century. Focus will be placed on the concerns that were expressed through the media regarding the possibility of disease transmission and public health. This inquiry into the history of film exhibition in the Maritimes will illustrate the growing comfort that Maritime citizens felt with elements of modernity as represented by motion picture theatres. Specifically, the article will explore how theatre managers and owners responded to public concerns that unclean theatres and unmonitored audiences could potentially transmit diseases, concluding with an examination of how government and public health officials dealt with motion picture theatres during the health emergency of the influenza pandemic of 1918.
- Subjects
MARITIME Provinces; CANADA; INFECTIOUS disease transmission; INFLUENZA pandemic, 1918-1919; CANADIAN provinces; PUBLIC officers; TWENTIETH century; MOTION picture audiences
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2021, Vol 30, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
0847-5911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cjfs-2020-0062