Title:
Cinema audiences and modernity : new perspectives on European cinema history
Author:
Biltereyst, Daniël, 1962-
ISBN:
9780415672771
9780415672788
9780203804636
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Cinema, audiences and modernity: an introduction / Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers -- Cinema, Tradition and Community. Spaces of Early Film Exhibition in Sweden, 1897-1911 / Åsa Jernudd -- Moviegoing under Military Occupation, Düsseldorf, 1919-1925 / Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk -- "Christ is coming to the Elite cinema": Film exhibition in the Catholic South of the Netherlands, 1910s and 1920s / Thunnis Van Oort -- Imagining modern Hungary through film: Debates on national identity, modernity and cinema in early twentieth century Hungary / Ana Manchin -- The Cinematic Shapes of the Socialist Modernity Programme: Ideological and Economic Parameters of Cinema Distribution in the Czech Lands, 1948-1970 / Pavel Skopal -- "The Management Committee intend to act as Ushers" : Cinema Operation and the South Wales Miners' Institutes in the 1950s and 1960s / Stefan Moitra -- Audiences, Modernity and Cultural Exchange. Urban legend: Early cinema, modernization, and urbanization in Germany, 1895-1914 / Annemone Ligensa -- Diagnosis: "Flimmeritis": Female Cinema-going in Imperial Germany, 1911-1918 / Andrea Haller -- "Afgrunden" in Germany: Monopolfilm, Cinema-Going and the Emergence of the Film Star Asta Nielsen, 1910-11 / Martin Loiperdinger -- "Little Italy on the Brink": The Italian Diaspora and the Distribution of War Films in London, 1914-1918 / Pierluigi Ercole -- Hollywood in disguise: Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s / Petr Szczepanik -- Negotiating cinema's modernity: Strategies of control and audience experiences of cinema in Belgium, 1930s-1960s / Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, Kathleen Lotze and Lies Van de Vijver.
Abstract:
The volume is part of a 'new cinema history' effort within film and screen studies to look at film history not only as a history of production, textual relations or movies-as-artefacts, but rather to concentrate more on the receiving end, the social experience of cinema, and the engagement of film/cinema (history) 'from below'. The contributions to the volume reflect upon the very different ways in which cinema has been accepted, rejected or disciplined as an agent of modernity in neighbouring parts of Europe, and how cinema-going has been promoted and regulated as a popular social practice at different times in twentieth-century European history.
This book sheds new light on the cinema and modernity debate by confronting established theories on the role of the modern cinematic experience with new empirical work on the history of the social experience of cinema-going, film audiences and film exhibition.
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