Lone Star Picture Shows.
Lone Star Lone Star (or Lonestar) may refer to: - Lone Star Flag, the official flag of the State of Texas
- The Lone Star State, an official nickname for the State of Texas; derived from the flag
Picture Shows. By Richard Schroeder. (College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii, 224. $34.95, ISBN ISBN
abbr.
International Standard Book Number
ISBN International Standard Book Number
ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-58544-097-3.)
In Lone Star Picture Shows, Richard Schroeder takes an anecdotal anecdotal /an·ec·do·tal/ (an?ek-do´t'l) based on case histories rather than on controlled clinical trials.
anecdotal adjective Unsubstantiated; occurring as single or isolated event. look at the history of both movie making and movie watching in Texas.
While this is number two in the Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, most
of the stories are about the big cities, though smaller towns are
occasionally mentioned. There are almost as many photographs as there
are pages, making this a good coffee-table book cof·fee-ta·ble book
n.
An oversize book of elaborate design that may be used for display, as on a coffee table.
coffee-table book
Noun
a large expensive illustrated book
Noun 1. for movie buffs The name Buffs can mean: - Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment), a British army unit
- Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes
- Buffs Company, a Rifle Company of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada that parades out of Dalton Armoury in Scarborough.
. The
book is divided into five chronological sections, ending in 1960. In
each section, Schroeder discusses how Texans watched their picture
shows, from storefront nickelodeons to wide-screen multiplexes. He
relates interviews with movie-theater personnel recalling their
experiences showing movies, and he tells of all the movies that have
been made in Texas. The book is mostly personal recollection, either of
Schroeder or the people he interviewed, or from personal papers in
archival collections, though newspaper articles are also cited. [JEAN A.
STUNTZ, West Texas A&M University]
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