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“In Now Playing, a history of early film exhibition in Toronto, sociologist Paul S. Moore explores how the cinema became a mass medium. In particular, Moore focuses on how local government officials, film exhibitors and newspaper writers transformed moviegoing, an activity that middle-class city dw...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 587 - 589 |
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| Formato: | Book Review |
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Oxford University Press / UK
Winter2010
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