...Richard deCordova Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, the Hays Office and Saturday Matinees Richard deCordova Everybody is talking about the movies, about what is...

... of desire. Richard decordova’s “Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Au- 6 dience, The Hays Office and Saturday Matinees” deals with the largely ignored topic of children spectators. Taking up the postcolonial critique of ethnography, deCordova claims that current...

... Response to Questionnaire on “The Female Spectator.” No. 20-21; pp, 137-141. decordova, Richard Ethnography and Exhibition: The Child Audience, the Hays Office and Saturday Matinees. No. 23; pp. 91-107. DiPiero, Thomas The Patriarch is Not (Just) a Man. No. 25-26; pp. 101-124...

... authorship rather than her screenwriting talent, one cannot dis- count the consistent appeal of Glyn’s films with audiences.9 Despite her critical disfavor, trade journals noted that an “Elinor Glyn film” was a reliable hit with the “matinee audience” (middle-­class women shoppers).10 Although...

... nature have found a strange partner in the culture of television and the Hollywood world of cow- boys and Chicago-style gangsters-and its matinee John Wayne and Rambo idols. Somehow this strange mutation has created the urban warrior.” To display such a “mutation,” Soul Shadows features a series...

... made-for-TV movies that were broadcast on network prime time during the 1980s as women’s matinee pictures for the 1990s. By re-airing most of the major networks’ social-problem films from the previous decade, Life- time explicitly recodes these films (whose...

... such as class, race and ethnicity-and opens up a space for interpretation and reappro- priation. The Corbett-Fitzsimrnons Fight may have been addressed to men in the direct manner of popular prize fights (although Corbett’s previous career as a matinee idol complicates...

... powerless victim.52 If Shiraito sacrifices herself, it is a gift precisely in Marcel Mauss’s sense. Her gift imposes an obligation on Kin’ya, which he must reciprocate by any means. The legendary matinee idol Okada Tokihiko’s acting sensitively conveys Kin’ya’s painful awareness of this exchange...

... her career advanced, Lyons hosted a number of popu- lar programs for Crosley, including WLW Consumers’ Foundation, where two hundred women tested products to be advertised on radio; Morning Matinee, an audience-participation show with music, talk, and games; and the game show Collect Calls from...

...- lating Explanation of the New Congress Plan with Regard to Motion Pictures” in the magazine Child Welfare.48 In the article, Gilman outlines past strategies for countering and improving motion picture production, including efforts to establish junior matinees and family nights, preview films, and...