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Cinema Beyond the City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781844578467)
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xCinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium - an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city. Yet film exhibitors have been bringing moving pictures to towns and villages since the early days of itinerant shows. This volume presents for the first time an exploration of the social, cultural and economic dynamics of film culture in the European countryside.
Spanning more than a century of film exhibition from the early twentieth-century to the present day, Cinema Beyond the City examines the role that movie-going has played in small-town and rural communities across Europe. It documents an amazing diversity of sites and situations that are relevant for understanding historical and current patterns in film consumption. In chapters written by leading scholars and young academics, interdisciplinary research is used to address key questions about access, economic viability, audience behaviour, film programming and the cultural flows between cities and hinterlands. With its wide range of regional studies and innovative methodological approaches, the collection will be of interest not only to film historians, but also to scholars in the fields of urban history, rural studies and cultural geography.
Author: Judith Thissen,Clemens Zimmermann
ISBN-10: 1844578461
ISBN-13: 9781844578467
Publisher: British Film Institute
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
Spanning more than a century of film exhibition from the early twentieth-century to the present day, Cinema Beyond the City examines the role that movie-going has played in small-town and rural communities across Europe. It documents an amazing diversity of sites and situations that are relevant for understanding historical and current patterns in film consumption. In chapters written by leading scholars and young academics, interdisciplinary research is used to address key questions about access, economic viability, audience behaviour, film programming and the cultural flows between cities and hinterlands. With its wide range of regional studies and innovative methodological approaches, the collection will be of interest not only to film historians, but also to scholars in the fields of urban history, rural studies and cultural geography.
Author: Judith Thissen,Clemens Zimmermann
ISBN-10: 1844578461
ISBN-13: 9781844578467
Publisher: British Film Institute
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
By Judith Thissen
xJudith Thissen is Associate Professor of Film History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She has published widely on the subject of film culture, cinema audiences and social history in international journals and numerous anthologies. She is the co-editor of Contemporary Culture: New Perspectives on Arts and Humanities Research (2013). In 2011, she launched with Frank Kessler a series of workshops devoted to Comparative Cinema History, focussing in particular on Europe.
Clemens Zimmermann is Professor of History and Chair of Cultural and Media History at Saarland University, Germany. He has published extensively on media history, rural-urban relations, and the European metropolis. He is the author of Die Zeit der Metropolen (3rd edition 2015) and Medien im Nationalsozialismus (2007). His edited books include Industrial Cities: History and Future (2013) and Creative Urban Milieus: Historical Perspectives on Culture, Economy and the City (with Martina Hessler, 2008).
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