Ronald wrote:
> the movie theater as the place where people escape their mundane
existence to experience another reality is exactly what the medieval
church-going experience was in many ways.
/Remember that The Roxy Theater, paradigm of the 'movie palace' (7th
Avenue & 50th Street, NYC, long demolished) was advertised as "The
Cathedral of the Motion Picture."
> the movie theater as the place where people escape their mundane
existence to experience another reality is exactly what the medieval
church-going experience was in many ways.
/Remember that The Roxy Theater, paradigm of the 'movie palace' (7th
Avenue & 50th Street, NYC, long demolished) was advertised as "The
Cathedral of the Motion Picture."