Everyday Movies

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. 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. 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. She foregrounds instead another kind of apparatus, one that was accessible, affordable, adaptable, easy to use, and crucially, programmable. 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.

Everyday Movies documenteaza ascensiunea din secolul al XX-lea a proiectoarelor de film portabile. Acesta demonstreaza ca, din cel de-al doilea razboi mondial, marea majoritate a vizionarii de filme nu s-a intamplat in stralucirea ecranului mare, ci mai degraba a avut loc alaturi de erorile, distorsiunile si clacul clicturilor de masini mici care au transformat casa, clasa, muzeul, comunitate, guvern, industrie si locuri militare in site-uri de afisare a imaginilor in miscare