{"product_id":"explorations-in-new-cinema-history-isbn-9781405199490","title":"Explorations in New Cinema History","description":"\u003ci\u003eExplorations in New Cinema History\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley among others\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelops 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePrompts 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digital technology and geospatial information systems to provide illuminating insights in to the uses of cinema\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Notes on Contributors.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Mapping Cinema Experiences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 New Cinema Histories (\u003ci\u003eRichard Maltby\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a Post-Moviegoing Age (\u003ci\u003eRobert C. Allen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema (\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Klenotic\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 What to do with Cinema Memory? (\u003ci\u003eAnnette Kuhn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Distribution, Programming and Audiences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent (\u003ci\u003eDaniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de Vijver\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934–1936 (\u003ci\u003eClara Pafort-Overduin\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Patterns in First-Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s (\u003ci\u003eJohn Sedgwick\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia (\u003ci\u003eMike Walsh\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 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 (\u003ci\u003ePeter Krämer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial Change in Hollywood, 1975–1985 (\u003ci\u003eDeron Overpeck\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 Venues and their Publics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 ‘No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors’: Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s (\u003ci\u003eTim Snelson and Mark Jancovich\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New York’s Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s (\u003ci\u003ePeter Stanfield\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and its Contexts in the Small-Town US South (\u003ci\u003eArthur Knight\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and National Cinema (\u003ci\u003eDeb Verhoeven\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Cinema, Modernity and the Local.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional Mass Market for Movies (\u003ci\u003ePaul S. Moore\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial (\u003ci\u003eKathryn Fuller-Seeley\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India (\u003ci\u003eStephen Putnam Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural Community Fundraiser in the 1950s (\u003ci\u003eKate Bowles\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" (Choice, 1 November 2011)  \u003cb\u003eRichard Maltby\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHollywood Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 2003).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Biltereyst\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Meers\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eExplorations in New Cinema History\u003c\/i\u003e presents an original approach to writing and understanding the social and cultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences, the commercial activities of film exhibition and distribution, and the cinema as a site of social and cultural exchange.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIf cinema history is to engage with broader social histories, this pioneering collection argues, it must concern itself not with the production of individual films, but with audiences, cinemagoing, and the role that cinema plays in culture at large. Bringing together a collection of essays written by scholars working on the leading edge of the field, this volume prompts us to question and revise our understanding of key periods of cinema history, and opens up cinema studies to long-overdue conversations with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors describe the very different forms of cinema and the experiences they offer their audiences, from the luxurious first-run movie palaces and downmarket \"grind houses\" of the major metropolitan centres to the altogether different theatres in small-town and remote rural communities. Their essays employ empirical research methods such as the use of geographical information systems to provide illuminating insights into the uses of cinema, making this an engaging read for all students of film history and cinema studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Douglas Gomery, author of Shared Pleasures\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"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\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Neale, University of Exeter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An indispensable compendium documenting the rich body of work produced over the last decade on the social history of the experience of moviegoing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrank Kessler, Universiteit Utrecht\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989187313893,"sku":"NP9781405199490","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405199490.jpg?v=1761783138","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/explorations-in-new-cinema-history-isbn-9781405199490","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}