Soundies Jukebox Films and the Shift to Small-Screen Culture

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 al...

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Main Author Kelley, Andrea J
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Rutgers University Press 2018
Edition1
SeriesTechniques of the Moving Image
Subjects
Film & Video
History & Criticism
PERFORMING ARTS
Recreational & performing arts
Soundies (Motion pictures)
Soundies (Motion pictures)-History and criticism
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Summary: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.
ISBN:0813586364
9780813586366
9780813586342
0813586348
DOI:10.36019/9780813586366