![]() ![]() The digging required for this book began before the digitization projects that have utterly transformed historical scholarship had reached a critical mass it was also immeasurably shaped by this sea change. I am grateful every day to have the support of strong, accessible, public education and research funding that actively advocates for humanities scholarship. This project has also benefited from the support of Le Fonds de recherche du Quebec, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Fantastic readers’ reports helped me to improve this manuscript immeasurably, providing lengthy, specific, and general commentary that is the stuff of writerly dreams. Madison Wetzell has ably helped to guide me through the production process. Raina Polivka at University of California Press has been a breath of fresh air with her clear-sighted and unswerving support. Among the many gifted colleagues in Minneapolis, I want to single out John Mowitt, John Archer, and Ron Greene, who each provided intellectual guidance and inspiration. During this phase, Steven Groening provided crucial research assistance and steady friendship. This project had its first real boost from my McKnight Landgrant Professorship, University of Minnesota. Complicating the sheer volume of interlocutors is the long, twisting path that I followed to get here. There are so many people who helped me along with this book that it is difficult to know where to start. ![]() PORTABLE PROJECTORS AND THE ELECTRONIC AGEĮPILOGUE: VECTORS OF PORTABLE CINEMA Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments MOBILIZING PORTABILITY: THE AMERICAN MILITARY AND FILM PROJECTORSĤ. SPECTACULAR PORTABILITY: CINEMA’S EXHIBITORY COMPLEX, AMERICAN INDUSTRY, AND THE 1939 WORLD’S FAIRģ. ENGINEERING PORTABILITY: THE RISE OF SUITCASE CINEMAĢ. INTRODUCTION: PORTABILITY AND PROJECTABILITYġ. Manufactured in the United States of Americaįor Stella and Ava Contents Acknowledgments | Cinematography-United States-History-20th century.Ĭlassification: LCC TR890. | Motion pictures-Technological innovations-History-20th century. Subjects: LCSH: Motion picture projectors-History-20th century. Title: Everyday movies : portable film projectors and the transformation of American culture / Haidee Wasson.ĭescription: Oakland, California : University of California Press, Includes bibliographical references and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture ![]() The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Robert and Meryl Selig Endowment Fund in Film Studies, established in memory of Robert W. Revealing rich archival discoveries, this book charts a compelling and original history of film that brings to light new technologies and diverse forms of media engagement that continue to shape contemporary life. She foregrounds instead another kind of apparatus, one that was accessible, affordable, adaptable, easy to use, and crucially, programmable. Reorienting the history of cinema away from the magic of the movie theater, Haidee Wasson illustrates the remarkable persistence and proliferation of devices that fundamentally rejected the sleek, highly professionalized film show. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-clack of small machines that transformed home, classroom, museum, community, government, industrial, and military venues into sites of moving-image display. ![]() Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. ![]()
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