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.
The book provides a wide range of research methodologies and
perspectives on these matters, including:
- the use of oral history methods
- questionnaires
- diaries
- audience letters
- as well as industrial, sociological and other accounts on
historical film audiences.
The collection's case studies thus provide a "how to" compendium
of current methodologies for researchers and students working on
film and media audiences, film and media experiences, and
historical reception.
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.
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