Going to the Movies

Going to the MoviesThis book analyses the diverse historical and geographical circumstances in which audiences have viewed American cinema. It looks at cinema audiences ranging from Manhattan nickelodeons to the modern suburban megaplex, and from provincial, small town or rural America to the shanty towns of South Africa.

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is an interplay of forces and drives

While maintaining transnational ties and engaging in border-crossing journeys

it is an auteurist study unlike any other

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suspended as they are between China and Africa and between a poor rural background and a precarious urban future

and Richard Harding Davis

In an attempt to combat this

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is a necessary complement to thought within the limits of reason

western consumerism is contrasted with the indigenous culture

The second part (Consuming South China) moves to the turn of the century when