Picturegoers

Contents



Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations



Introduction

First Encounters

- Anon., 'Department of Physics'

- Anon., 'Magic Lantern Kinetoscope'

- Anon., 'Sporting Notions'

- Maxim Gorky, 'Last Night I Was in the Kingdom of Shadows'

- Jean Renoir, 'My Life and My Films'

- Junichiro Tanizaki, 'Childhood Years'

- Joan Courthope, 'Diaries of Joan Courthope'

- Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar, 'Cinema in Iran'

- Edward Wagenknecht, 'The Movies in the Age of Innocence'

- Filson Young, 'Kinema'

- Robert Roberts, 'The Classic Slum'

- Fermin Rocker, 'The East End Years'

- Ingmar Bergman, 'Magic Lantern'

- Leila Berg, 'Flickerbook'

- John Sutherland, 'Magic Moments'

- John Wyver, 'Live from the Met'



Audiences

- Andrei Tarkovsky, 'Sculpting in Time'

- Ben Thomas, 'Ben's Limehouse'

- Dorothy Richardson, 'The Front Rows'

- Taizo Fujimoto, 'The Nightside of Japan'

- Maxwell Bodenheim, 'East Side Moving Picture Theatre-Sunday'

- Claude Roy, 'Into China'

- Min-Ch'ien T.Z. Tyau, 'London Through Chinese Eyes'

- Mary Helen Fee, 'A Woman's Impression of the Philippines'

- Horace Green, 'The Log of a Noncombatant'

- Graham Greene, 'The Lawless Roads'

- George Jordan, 'Bioscope & Cinematograph Shows'

- Verónica Feliu, 'Movie-Going as Resistant Community'

- Louis Couperus, 'Il Cinematografo'

- Ruth Frances Woodsmall, 'Moslem Women Enter a New World'

- Harold Hobson, 'Indirect Journey'

- C.W. Kimmins, 'The Cinema'

- Alexander L. Pach, 'With the Silent Workers'

- Italo Calvino, 'A Cinema-Goer's Autobiography'

- John Foster Fraser, 'Russia of To-day'

- Rudolf Rocker, 'Alexandra Palace Internment Camp in the First World War, 1914-1918'

- Richard Wollheim, 'Germs'

- Lauchlan MacLean Watt, 'The Heart of a Soldier'

- Arthur Ruhl, 'The Other Americans'

- Jack Common, 'Kiddar's Luck'

- Jean-Paul Sartre, 'Words'

- Josef Morrell, 'Tell Me Grandpa'

- Georges Perec, 'Things'

- James Malone, 'Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918'

- Archie Bell, 'The Spell of China'

- Thomas Mann, 'The Magic Mountain'

- Luke McKernan, 'Going to the Cinema'



Places

- Khalil Totah, 'Dynamite in the Middle East'

- Edmund Wilson, 'Red, Black, Blond and Olive'

- C.M. Leicester, 'A Holiday in Burma'

- Edwa Moser, 'The Mexican Touch'

- 'Inbad', 'An Island Night's Entertainment'

- Gloria Swanson, 'Swanson on Swanson'

- Laurie Lee, 'As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning'

- Madhur Jaffrey, 'Climbing the Mango Trees'

- Frank Kessler, 'Astor-Harmonie'

- Harry A. Franck, 'Working North from Patagonia'

- Li Hung-fu, 'Report from a Chinese Village'

- Arthur Ransome, 'The Crisis in Russia'

- Miss Johnson, 'An Evening at the Cinema'

- Park Yeon-mi, 'In Order to Live'

- Otto Mänchen-Helfen, 'Journey to Tuva'

- Olga Briceño, 'Cocks and Bulls in Caracas'

- Jacob Tann, 'Going to Watch a Movie in 3021'



Players

- James Baldwin, 'The Devil Finds Work'

- C.H. Rolph, 'London Particulars'

- Molly Picon, 'So Laugh a Little'

- Arnold Bennett, 'Journal 1929'

- Lorna Sage, 'Bad Blood'

- Edward W. Said, 'Out of Place'

- Nelson Mandela, 'Long Walk to Freedom'

- J.B. Priestley, 'Delight'

- V.S. Naipaul, 'The Middle Passage'

- John Osborne, 'A Better Class of Person'

- Thomas Burke, 'Nights in Town'

- Anon., 'Sociology of Film'

- Es'kia Mphahlele, 'Down Second Avenue'

- 'Negro male student in High School. Age 17', 'Movies and Conduct'

- Paul van Ostaijen, 'Asta Nielsen'



Reality

- Stefan Zweig, 'The World of Yesterday'

- Sydney Race, 'The Journals of Sydney Race'

- J.G. Ballard, 'Miracles of Life'

- Véra Tsaritsyn [Lady Colin Campbell], 'Modern Gladiators'

- Henry Newbolt, 'The War Films'

- Virginia Woolf, 'The Cinema'

- Tony Harrison, 'Flicks and This Fleeting Life'

- Ray Lankester, 'Diversions of a Naturalist'

- Gilbert Frankau, 'Gilbert Frankau's Self Portrait'

- George Orwell, 'Diaries'

- Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'Total Recall'

- Paramahansa Yogananda, 'Autobiography of a Yogi'

- Mihail Sebastian, 'Journal 1935-1944'

- Anon., 'Newsreels'

- Joseph Roth, 'Twenty Minutes from Before the War'

- Taran N. Khan, 'Shadow City'



Fears and Desires

- Franz Kafka, 'The Diaries of Franz Kafka'

- Peter O'Toole, 'Loitering with Intent'

- Vernon Scannell, 'Autobiographical Note'

- Mrs K.J. Bills, 'Facts about Birth of a Nation Play at the Colonial'

- Elizabeth Bowen, 'Why I Go to the Cinema'

- J.M. Coetzee, 'Boyhood'

- Negley Farson, 'The Way of a Transgressor'

- D.H. Lawrence, 'Mornings in Mexico'

- Rrekgetsi Chimeloane, 'Whose Laetie Are You?'

- Canon H.D. Rawnsley, 'The Child and the Cinematograph Show'

- 'Shorthand typist secretary, 21, female', 'British Cinemas and their Audiences'

- John Baxter, 'A Pound of Paper'

- Paul Rose, 'My Memories of Star Wars Are Only True from a Certain Point of View'

- Mary J. Breen, 'The Legion of Decency'

- 'College girl of nineteen', 'Movies and Conduct'

- Robert Ferguson, 'Scandinavians'

- Philip Norman, 'Babycham Night'

- Roland Barthes, 'Leaving the Movie Theater'



Coda

- Frank Cottrell-Boyce, 'A Love Letter to Cinema'



Bibliography

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