From the first screenings by the Lumière brothers to the closure of cinemas due to the pandemic, going through all the key steps of a 120 years long-lasting adventure. Handbook of movie theaters’ history talks about the evolution of the movie theaters’ and digs into their social and cultural value.
Would it know how to re-establish itself as a strong and stable space to share emotions, how would the future movie theaters’ be like? Which viewers would attend to it? Handbook of movie theaters’ history tries to answer these questions by analyzing how the movie theaters’ businesses in Turin adapted and reinvented themselves through time to finally achieve a global picture of the situation.