Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun

Locates the origins of the mass audience and the emergence of everyday moviegoing in the culture of cities.

Winner of the 2009 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize presented by the Canadian Communication Association

Using Toronto as a case study, and focusing on a period from the opening of the first theaters showcasing moving pictures in 1906 to the end of World War I, Now Playing locates the origins of our present-day mass audience in the culture of cities. Paul S. Moore examines the emergence ...