Suggestions for Further Reading

• Aronson, Michael. Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905–1929. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

• Currie, Barton W. “The Nickel Madness.” Harper’s Weekly, August 24, 1907.

• Gomery, Douglas. Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.

• Hansen, Miriam. Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship and American Silent Film. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 

• Musser, Charles. The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

• Nasaw, David. Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

• Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

• Race Films/Race Matters. A program series sponsored by the Finger Lakes Film Trail.

• Ross, Steven J. Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

• Singer, Ben. "Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors," in The Silent Cinema Reader, ed. Lee Grieveson. New York: Routledge, 2004.

• Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

• Stokes, Melvyn, and Richard Maltby, eds. American Movie Audiences: From the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era. London: British Film Institute, 1999.

• Waller, Gregory, Main Street Amusements: Movies and Commercial Entertainment in a Southern City, 1896-1930. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.

• Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2011.