Modernity at the Movies

Cinema-going in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915-1945

Camila Gatica Mizala (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2024
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-4767-7 (ISBN)

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Cinema can both reflect the world as it is and offer escape from it. In _Modernity at the Movies,_ Camila Gatica Mizala explores the ideas of reflection versus escapism and examines how modes of understanding the current moment emerged through the practice of going to the movies in Santiago and Buenos Aires between 1915 and 1945/. Using cinema and variety magazines published in both cities, she analyzes the technology, architecture, attendance, behavior, language, censorship, and overall experience of cinema-going. These publications regularly engaged with important topics such as morality and urbanization and helped build a cinematographic audience. Gatica Mizala brings together the perception and reception of cinema as a modern art form, shifting the focus from the production of films to the experience of the audience when viewing them. By focusing on the audience instead of the films, this study is able to articulate the ways that cinema, as a modern activity, was incorporated into everyday life and discuss what it meant to be modern in early to midcentury Latin America.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2023
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh PA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8229-4767-6 / 0822947676
ISBN-13	978-0-8229-4767-7 / 9780822947677
Zustand	Neuware