Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture
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Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture

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Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture

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Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture is the first and only book to position what are called "Soundies" within the broader cultural and technological milieu of the 1940s. From 1940 to 1946, these musical films circulated in everyday venues, including bars, bowling alleys, train stations, hospitals, and even military bases. Viewers would pay a dime to watch them playing on the small screens of the Panoram jukebox. This book expands U.S. film history beyond both Hollywood and institutional film practices. Examining the dynamics between Soundies' short musical films, the Panoram's film-jukebox technology, their screening spaces and their popular discourse, Andrea J. Kelley provides an integrative approach to historic media exhibition. She situates the material conditions of Soundies' screening sites alongside formal considerations of the films and their unique politics of representation to illuminate a formative moment in the history of the small screen.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780813586366
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction: Soundies Jukebox Films
  8. Part I: Small-Screen Encounters and Spatial Practices
  9. Part II: Short Forms and Enduring Formations
  10. Conclusion: Short and Sweet
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. About the Author