In this innovative study of early film exhibition, Joe Kember reveals a rich and diversifying landscape of popular entertainments in the mid-to-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Marketing
Ths book introduces the reader to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideological and economic debates while exploring new and challenging approaches to the subject.
Victorian culture was characterized by a proliferation of shows and exhibitions. These were encouraged by the development of new sciences and technologies, together with changes in transportation, edu