The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896-1950
Description
What did our Scottish grandparents and great grandparents see at the cinema? What thrilled them on the silver screen?
This is the first scholarly work to document the cinema habits of early twentieth-century Scots, exploring the growth of early cinema-going and integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers. He considers patterns of cinema-going and attendance levels, as well as changes in audience preferences for different genres, stars or national origins of films.
The thematic chapters broaden out the discussion of cinema-going to consider the wider social and cultural impact of this early form of mass leisure. Trevor Griffiths' book is a major contribution to the growing body of work on the history and significance of British film
Key Features
- First major study of early Scottish film
- New archives and research
- Fascinating diary entries
- Early cinema as business
- Important addition to Scottish film studies
Key words: cinema, Scotland, history, cinema-going, society, films, Scottish
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About the Author
Trevor Griffiths is Reader in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Oxford, he has carried out research on working-class society in Britain in the early twentieth century, before turning more recently to examine aspects of popular culture. He was Co-Investigator on the three-year AHRC research project, 'Early Scottish Cinema, 1896-1927'.
