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Potamianos, George. "Hollywood in the Hinterlands: Mass Culture in Two California Communities, 1896-1936," History Department, University of Southern California, August 1998.
Historians have traditionally identified the rise of commercial, mass entertainment, and especially the cinema, with late-nineteenth-century urbanization. Yet as late as 1930, the bulk of the United States population lived in towns with fewer than 2500 inhabitants. Using detailed community studies of the California towns of Sacramento and Placerville and an examination of the evolution of the structure of the film industry from its origins through the coming of sound, this study suggests that rural residents not only encountered mass culture differently than did their urban counterparts, but that they struggled to incorporate motion pictures into their communities largely on their own terms.
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