Museums of Cinema and their Audience examines how cinema has
been transformed and strengthened through museological and archival
activities since its origins, and asks what paradoxes may be
involved in putting cinema in a museum.
Cere examines the ideas which developed around the need to
establish national museums of cinema, how these have negotiated and
defined the boundary between the national and the international in
their exhibitionary and screening practices. She looks at the
tensions between the history of film as an aesthetic product and
cinema as a a leisurea (TM) activity, and at how, museums of
cinemaa (TM)s exhibitions, collections and festivals organised
under their aegis, resolve them. The book also explores the way the
ideal of public access to a cultural heritage is contradicted by
the recent emphasis on museums as 'tourist spaces for
individualised consumption'.
All these themes combined will be concretised through the
empirical study of five different museums of cinema, including a
visitor and audience study and interviews with leading staff,
adopting a comparative focus because the resolution of many of the
theoretical questions posed above may be shaped by the prevailing
sense of national cultural and filmic traditions, as well as the
motivations of founders and funding agencies, which may be
inflected differently in varying national contexts.
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