Cinema audiences and modernity : new perspectives on European cinema history / edited by Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biltereyst, Daniël, 1962-

Maltby, Richard, 1952-

Meers, Philippe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture audiences--Europe--History--20th century.

Motion picture audiences.

Motion picture industry.

History.

Europe.

Motion picture industry--Europe--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

"The contributions to this volume reflect on 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 history." This quote is from a brief introductory statement provided by the three editors, who are affiliated as follows: Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent U., Belgium), Richard Maltby (Finders U., South Australia), and Philippe Meers (U. of Antwerp, Belgium). Their discussion of the approach to film studies that focuses on audiences, reception, and regulation is followed by 12 contributed chapters looking closely at these themes in various countries, contexts, and time periods. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415672771

0415672775

9780415672788

0415672783

OCLC:

694393759