Class Year
2015
Document Type
Student Research Paper
Date of Creation
Spring 2015
Department 1
Cinema & Media Studies
Abstract
This paper explores the vital role art house movie theaters play in their communities, particularly in bringing film culture to small towns. I argue that art house theaters have a symbiotic relationship with their communities (particularly small towns) in which the art houses play a vital role in bringing culture to their downtown communities, and these communities are ardent supporters of art house theaters, helping them convert from 35mm to digital and continue to thrive. I explore two art house movie theaters in great detail as case studies, the County theater in Doylestown, PA and Gettysburg's Majestic theater, to prove that art houses are staples of small towns and play a cultural role so vital that they have overcome major changes in technology and appear to have a bright future.
Copyright Note
This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Marianelli, Morgan H., "They Survived the Conversion from 35mm to Digital, so Now What? The Future of America’s Small-Town Art House Theaters" (2015). Student Publications. 374.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/374
Comments
Cinema & Media Studies Senior Thesis