Reviews
"a serious study of what each of these edifices meant to original audiences, as well as what they are becoming for those crossing their gilded portals today." - Southern Living Online
--Southern Living Online
"Presents a serious study of what each of these edifices meant to original audiences, as well as what they are becoming for those crossing their gilded portals today." - Southern Living
--Southern Living
"A serious study of what each of these edifices meant to original audiences, as well as what they are becoming for those crossing their gilded portals today"
--Charlotte Observer
"Janna Jones reminds us that business history is never solely about dollars and cents. The story of America's movie palaces suggests the mixture of social and class concerns, popular fashions, and noncommercial passions that have always combined with entrepreneurship to shape American business."
--Business History Review
"An accessible style with diction reminiscent of the journalistic prose of Smithsonian Magazine or Historic Preservation."
--The Public Historian
"Enables readers to gain a unique and different history lesson through the eyes of a form of mass entertainment."
"Anyone with a genuine love of American motion picture history and looking for a new way of learning about aspects of twentieth-century Southern history would find reading this book to be a worthwhile investment of his/her time."
--American Studies International
"It is in their stories of their respective resurrections, and the revelation 'of the cultural implication of what it means to preserve the past,' that Jones's book makes its most significant contribution."
--Scope