Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Studies in Popular Culture
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- General editor’s foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables
- Introduction
- 1 From the fairground to the picture palace: 1896–1913
- 2 Post-war consolidation, the coming of sound and Hollywood: 1913–30
- 3 Cinema as mass entertainment: 1930–50
- 4 From ‘Golden Age’ to the beginnings of decline: 1950– 60
- 5 Sub-dividing and falling, and the lessons from the USA: 1960s–1984
- 6 The multiplex revolution: 1985–present
- 7 The future for cinema exhibition in the digital age
- Select bibliography
- Index
6 - The multiplex revolution: 1985–present
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 December 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Studies in Popular Culture
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- General editor’s foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of tables
- Introduction
- 1 From the fairground to the picture palace: 1896–1913
- 2 Post-war consolidation, the coming of sound and Hollywood: 1913–30
- 3 Cinema as mass entertainment: 1930–50
- 4 From ‘Golden Age’ to the beginnings of decline: 1950– 60
- 5 Sub-dividing and falling, and the lessons from the USA: 1960s–1984
- 6 The multiplex revolution: 1985–present
- 7 The future for cinema exhibition in the digital age
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
By the early 1980s, Britain was viewed as a market in which the domestic exhibition sector was in terminal decline, while at the same time being a market in which films from the USA were both popular and dominant. This chapter discusses the development of the multiplex cinemas in Britain from the mid 1980s to the present. The opening of Britain's first multiplex cinema called The Point" in 1985 heralded a new kind of cinema. The building of new cinemas
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- From silent screen to multi-screenA history of cinema exhibition in Britain since 1896, pp. 144 - 172Publisher: Manchester University PressFirst published in: 2025
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