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Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies |
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Contents |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Acknowledgements |
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Part 1 Mapping Cinema Experiences |
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1 New Cinema Histories |
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2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a Post-Moviegoing Age |
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3 Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the Spatiality of Cinema |
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4 What to do with Cinema Memory? |
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Part 2 Distribution, Programming and Audiences |
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5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar Ghent |
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6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands, 1934–1936 |
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7 Patterns in First-Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the mid-1930s |
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8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia |
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9 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 |
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10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial Change in Hollywood, 1975–1985 |
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Part 3 Venues and their Publics |
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11 ‘No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors’: Exhibition, Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in the 1930s and 1940s |
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12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New York’s Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s |
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13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and its Contexts in the Small-Town US South |
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14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and National Cinema |
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Part 4 Cinema, Modernity and the Local |
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15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional Mass Market for Movies |
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16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907 Cooperstown, New York, Centennial |
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17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India |
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18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural Community Fundraiser in the 1950s |
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Index |
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