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Abel, Richard.  Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020.

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

Brennan, Nathaniel.  “The Great White Way and the Way of All Flesh: Metropolitan Film Culture and the Business of Film Exhibition in Times Square, 1929-1941.” Film History 27:2 (2015): 1-32.

Caddoo, Cara. “Captive and Captivated Audiences: Native American Film Exhibition, 1903–1929.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 64, no. 2 (2025): 10-33.

Frank, Stephanie. “Industrial Networks and Urban Development: Kansas City’s Film Row District and National Film Distribution.” Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 27, no. 1 (2020): 46-64.

Jurca, Catherine, and John Sedgwick. “The Film’s the Thing: Moviegoing in Philadelphia, 1935–36.” Film History 26, no. 4 (2014): 58-83.

Klinger, Barbara.  Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Paul, William.  When Movies Were Theater: Architecture, Exhibition, and the Evolution of American Film.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Rogers, Ariel.  On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926-1942.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Singer, Ben.  “Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors.” Cinema Journal 34:3 (Spring 1995): 5-34.

Sullivan, Sara. “Child Audiences in America’s Nickelodeons, 1900–1915: The Keith/Albee Managers’ Reports.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 30 (June 2010): 155–168.

Waller, Gregory A., ed.  Moviegoing in America:  A Sourcebook in the History of Film Exhibition.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001.

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