Explorations in New Cinema History (eBook)

Approaches and Case Studies

Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers (Herausgeber)

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2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-9639-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 others
• Develops 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 distribution
• Prompts 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 sciences
• Presents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digital technology and geospatial information systems to provide illuminating insights in to the uses of cinema

Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, South Australia. He has written and edited several books and articles on cinema history, including Hollywood Cinema (Blackwell, 2003).

Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at Ghent University, Belgium, and has written widely on the subject of film culture and controversy in the public sphere.

Philippe Meers is Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published variedly on historical and contemporary cinema culture and audiences.

Inhalt

Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies 5
Contents 7
Notes on Contributors 9
Acknowledgements 14
Part 1 Mapping Cinema Experiences 15
1 New Cinema Histories 17
2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a Post-Moviegoing Age 55
3 Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema 72
4 What to do with Cinema Memory? 99
Part 2 Distribution, Programming and Audiences 113
5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent 115
6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934–1936 139
7 Patterns in First-Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s 154
8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia 173
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 185
10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial Change in Hollywood, 1975–1985 199
Part 3 Venues and their Publics 211
11 ‘No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors’: Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s 213
12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New York’s Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s 226
13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and its Contexts in the Small-Town US South 240
14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and National Cinema 257
Part 4 Cinema, Modernity and the Local 275
15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional Mass Market for Movies 277
16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial 294
17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India 309
18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural Community Fundraiser in the 1950s 324
Index 336

Rezensionen

"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (Choice, 1 November 2011)

"Explorations in New Cinema History is one book well deserving of
it title. Richard Maltby and his colleagues and contributors
not only lay out what this new style of social cinema history
means, but add case studies from the Netherlands to Australia to
small town USA. A major must-read for all scholars of cinema
history."



Douglas Gomery, author of Shared Pleasures



"This exciting collection adds further dimensions to the study of
film circulation and consumption and of cinema as a site of social
and cultural exchange. In doing so it establishes the "new cinema
history" as a major new force in the field of Film Studies"

Stephen Neale, University of Exeter

"An indispensable compendium documenting the rich body of work
produced over the last decade on the social history of the
experience of moviegoing."

Frank Kessler, Universiteit Utrecht

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Activities • Audiences • broader social • Cinema • cinema history • cinemas audiences • collection argues • commercial • Cultural • Cultural Studies • Engage • Exhibition • Explorations • Film • Films • Geschichte des Filmtheaters • Histories • History of Cinema • Individual • Kino • Kulturwissenschaften • New • original approach • Production • Site
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-9639-0 / 1444396390
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9639-3 / 9781444396393