{"id":6796,"date":"2013-11-15T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:47:56","slug":"iow-art-theater-now-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=6796","title":{"rendered":"IOW: \u201cArt Theater\u201d now in print!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy end-of-Art-Theater<\/strong><\/a>-100th anniversary week, gang! With the special events scheduled by Art Co-op general manager Austin McCann<\/strong> to help celebrate the occasion now past, what else<\/em> can the cultural sophisticates who frequent C-U Blogfidential<\/strong> partake in to better understand the legacy of our century-old cinema temple in downtown Champaign?<\/p>\n

Might we suggest reading The Art Theater: Playing Movies for 100 Years<\/strong><\/span>, a brand-new book introduced at the Art on Tuesday, November 12<\/strong>, and written by Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> residents Perry C. Morris, Joseph Muskin<\/strong>, and Audrey Wells<\/strong>! Nine chapters plus miscellanea recount the history of the Art, our first purpose-built movie theater, by introducing the successive entrepreneurs who shaped its existence. From vaudeville to Red Grange<\/strong>, the sounds of THE SHOPWORN ANGEL<\/strong> to forbidden Sunday matinees, war bonds to smoke bombs, Europe\u2019s filmmaking finest to America\u2019s pornographic pipeline, and worn-down facilities to upgraded digital presentation, much is awaiting your discovery within its 168 pages.<\/p>\n

Not only will you learn all about the theater and<\/em> its movies and<\/em> the business of exhibition and<\/em> a smidgen about 20th century C-U, you can help stoke the fire behind Champaign Urbana Theater History<\/strong>, an imprint founded by Morris, Wells, and Muskin. Plans are afoot to introduce a second volume about the Art\u2019s nearby cousin, the Orpheum Theatre<\/strong><\/a>, since it will reach its own century milestone in 2014; future titles have yet to be announced. If it must even be said, this writing trio needs<\/em> their own dearest readers to justify all the hard work they\u2019ll be undertaking for our community\u2019s enrichment. Make sure to visit this Web site<\/a> for direct ordering information and this Facebook<\/strong> page<\/a> for updates on their adventures!<\/p>\n

The Art Theater: Playing Movies for 100 Years<\/span> will retail on a sliding scale from $20 to $30 depending on location and occasion. As of today, the only purchasing location in the C-U is the Art itself, although Wells tells CUBlog<\/strong> that stores and libraries will be added shortly. If you don\u2019t get a peek at it right away, be sure to pick up C-U Confidential #7<\/strong> next week to enjoy, for free<\/em>, an exclusive excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Art Theater<\/span>, \u201cFrom Art House to Adults Only.\u201d Ahhhh<\/em>, we love<\/em> it when a plan comes together \u2026 especially if bound at the spine!<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n


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From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: We reveal the front cover of a new book about the Art Theater and divulge a bit about its contents, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,31,26],"tags":[1145,1702,1160,1144,1062,1142],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-matter-du-c-u","category-the-old-school","category-theatres-venues","tag-audrey-wells","tag-c-u-confidential","tag-champaign-urbana-theater-history","tag-joe-muskin","tag-perry-c-morris","tag-the-art-theater-playing-movies-for-100-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}