American picture palaces : the architecture of fantasy / David Naylor. txt
New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1981Descripción: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmTipo de contenido:- text
- unmediaded
- Volume
- 0442238614 :
- 9780130263292
- 725/.822/0973 19
- NA6846.U6 N39 1981
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Includes index.
Include bibliography.
Contents:
Photo Credits
Acknowledgments
Preface
Setting the stage
The age and the movies
Ancestral Original
The Palace Architects
A matter of Taste
The Building Program
The First Palaces
Broadway, The loop,and Beyond
The Old Guard
Fantasyland
Changes in the Weather
The Exotics
Master in Maturity
Years of Transition
Art Deco Giants
Art Deco in Decline
Lost and Found
Paved into Oblivion
An End to the Slaughter
The rescue Continues
Transformations 1 : Religious Ties
Transformations 2: Athletic Conversions
Transformations 3: Commercial Redevelopment
The case for Preservation
Appendix of Theaters
Bibliography
Index
The history of American movie theaters focusing on the larger, more ornate ones exploring both their facades and their interiors and emphasizing their ultimate fate.