Explorations in new cinema history
Subtitle: approaches and case studies
By: edited by Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9781405199490; 9781405199506
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture audiences; Motion picture theaters; Motion picture industry; Distribution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Maltby; title: Methodologies : mapping cinema exhibition. Re-imagining the history of the experience of cinema in a post-moviegoing age / Robert C. Allen; title: Putting cinema history on the map : using GIS to explore the spatiality of cinema / Jeffrey Klenotic; title: Audience research & oral histories. What to do with cinema memory? / Annette Kuhn; title: Social class, experiences of distinction and cinema in postwar Ghent / Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de Vijver; title: Programming and popularity. Patterns in first-run and suburban filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s / John Sedgwick; title: Hollywood and its global audiences : a comparative study of the biggest box office hits in the US and outside the US since the 1970s / Peter Krämer; title: Exhibition history as cinema history. From Hollywood to the garden suburb (and back to Hollywood) : studies in exhibition and distribution in Australia / Mike Walsh; title: "No hits, no runs, just terrors" : exhibition, cultural distinctions and cult audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s / Tim Snelson and Mark Jancovich; title: Going underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas : New York's subterranean film culture in the 1950s and 1960s / Peter Stanfield; title: Searching for the Apollo : black moviegoing and its contexts in the small town U.S. South / Arthur Knight; title: Blindsiding : theatre owners, political action and industrial change in Hollywood, 1975-1985 / Deron Overpeck; title: Revisions : national cinema re-examined. The social Biograph : newspapers as archives of the regional mass market for movies / Paul Moore; title: Distribution and exhibition in the Netherlands 1934-1936 / Clara Pafort-Overduin; title: Film distribution in the diaspora : temporality, community and national cinema / Deb Verhoeven; title: Reconsidering modernity and local cinema. Modernity for small town tastes : movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial / Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley; title: Silent film genre, exhibition and audiences in South India /Stephen Hughes; title: The last Bemboka picture show : 16mm cinema as rural community fundraiser in the 1950s / Kate Bowles.