Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies By
2011 | 341 Pages | ISBN: 1405199490 | PDF | 5 MB
Explorations in New Cinema History brings together cutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field to identify new approaches to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences, the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange. Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among othersDevelops the original argument that the social history of cinema-going and of the experience of cinema should take precedence over production- and text-based analyses Explores the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange, including patterns of popularity and taste, the role of individual movie theatres in creating and sustaining their audiences, and the commercial, political and legal aspects of film exhibition and distributionPrompts readers to reassess their understanding of key periods of cinema history, opening up cinema studies to long-overdue conversations with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciencesPresents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digital technology and geospatial information systems to provide illuminating insights in to the uses of cinema Content: Chapter 1 New Cinema Histories (pages 1-40): Richard MaltbyChapter 2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a Post?Moviegoing Age (pages 41-57): Robert C. AllenChapter 3 Putting Cinema History on the Map (pages 58-84): Jeffrey KlenoticChapter 4 What to Do with Cinema Memory? (pages 85-97): Annette KuhnChapter 5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent (pages 99-124): Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de VijverChapter 6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934-1936 (pages 125-139): Clara Pafort?OverduinChapter 7 Patterns in First?Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the Mid?1930s (pages 140-158): John SedgwickChapter 8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood) (pages 159-170): Mike WalshChapter 9 Hollywood and Its Global Audiences: A Comparative Study of the Biggest Box Office Hits in the United States and outside the United States Since the 1970s (pages 171-184): Peter KramerChapter 10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial Change in Hollywood, 1975-1985 (pages 185-196): Deron OverpeckChapter 11 'No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors': Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s (pages 197-211): Tim Snelson and Mark JancovichChapter 12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New York's Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s (pages 212-225): Peter StanfieldChapter 13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and Its Contexts in the Small?Town US South (pages 226-242): Arthur KnightChapter 14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and National Cinema (pages 243-260): Deb VerhoevenChapter 15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional Mass Market for Movies (pages 261-279): Paul S. MooreChapter 16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial (pages 280-294): Kathryn Fuller?SeeleyChapter 17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India (pages 295-309): Stephen Putnam HughesChapter 18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural Community Fundraiser in the 1950s (pages 310-321): Kate Bowles
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