TY - BOOK AU - Paul,William TI - When movies were theater: architecture, exhibition, and the evolution of American film T2 - Film and culture SN - 9780231176569 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - PN1995.9.S668 P38 2016 U1 - 791.43/095693 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Space and time in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures and architecture KW - Motion picture theaters KW - Theater architecture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: an art of the theater -- Making movies fit -- Store theaters: a radical break -- Palatial architecture, democratized audience -- Elite taste in a mass medium -- Uncanny theater -- The architectural screen -- Conclusion: Ontological fade-out -- Appendix 1: Stage shows and double features in select markets outside New York City -- Appendix 2: Feature films based on theatrical sources, 1914-2011 -- Abbreviations used for citations in notes ER -