{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I remember in college several American Studies classes pointed out that the stereotypical \"black movie theater\" practices of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/674311064657264640/", "html": "<p>I remember in college several American Studies classes pointed out that the stereotypical &ldquo;black movie theater&rdquo; practices of talking to your seatmates the whole time, yelling back to comment on the material or the actors, etc. was actually a <i>preservation</i> of traditional audience practice and the expectation that patrons would silently and impassively observe was an <i>innovation</i> used as an upper class-marker as public entertainments grew more class-striated towards the end of the 19th century</p>"}