Main entry:

Gray, Richard, 1947-

Title & Author:

Cinemas in Britain : a history of cinema architecture / Richard Gray.

Edition:

New ed.

Publication:

Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2011.

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Produced in collaboration with the Cinema Theatre Association."
Previous edition: 1996.
Previous ed. published 1996 under title: Cinemas in Britain : one hundred years of cinema architecture.
Includes bibliographical references (page 174) and index.
The Moving Image: Invention and pioneers -- Films Find a Home: The Early Years -- The Cinematograph Act: The Cinema Building Grows Up -- The Edwardian Luxury Cinema; The Early 1920s: The First 'Super-Cinemas' -- The American 'Movie Palace' -- Hollywood in the West End -- 'You ain't heard nothing yet!' -- The Picture Palace in the late 1920s ... and Into the Next Decade -- 'Atmospherics' and Fantasy -- The Granada Style -- Transition in Cinema Architecture -- Gaumont-British: Picture Palaces for the Nation -- The Odeon Style; ABC and Union -- The 1930s: Cinema Architects and Their Clients -- Cinema Interiors: Designers and Decorators -- Music for the Movies -- The Expanding Screen, the Contracting Cinema -- The Third Age of the Cinema -- Glossary of Architectural Terms -- 'Listed' Cinemas: A Future for the Past? -- Gazetteer of British Cinema Buildings.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This study looks at the history of the cinema in Britain, from its 19th century origins up to the present day, providing a detailed architectural history, and also evoking the magic of movie-going.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1848220723 (hardcover)
9781848220720 (hardcover)

Subject:

Motion picture theaters Great Britain History 20th century.
Theater architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Architecture des théâtres Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture and Planning.
Motion picture theaters.
Theater architecture.
Motion picture theaters Great Britain History.
Architecture Great Britain History 20th century.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Cinema Theatre Association

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275704
Call No.: BIB 210051
Status: Available