Channeling Hollywood: Picture Palace Employees and Celebrity Culture

Janna Jones

doi:10.1080/01956050309603672

Channeling Hollywood: Picture Palace Employees and Celebrity Culture

Janna Jones

Communication, School of

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Abstract

The author examines the relationship between early twentieth-century urban life and the celebrity culture generated by Hollywood through the lens of the daily lives of picture palace employees in Tampa, Florida. Many theater employees appropriated the glamour of Hollywood, and in doing so created distilled celebrity identities. These identities allowed them particular freedoms within the city and enabled movie patrons to brush shoulders with “near” celebrities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	109-124
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Popular Film and Television
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01956050309603672
State	Published - 2003

Keywords

Celebrity culture
Film exhibition
Film reception
Hollywood
Picture palace
Theater employee

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies
Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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