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Cinema 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.
Fashion Week in Paris and London, the Venice Biennale, and the
nineteenth-century Viennese scientific community may seem wildly
disparate, but each represent the cultural possibilities of an
international metropolis. "Creative Urban Milieus" is an
interdisciplinary examination of the historical relationship
between culture and the economy in such cities as Berlin, New York,
Helsinki, London, Venice, and many others. This groundbreaking work
investigates the contributions of the creative class to the urban
renaissance, contextualized by historical examples from the
eighteenth century to the present day.
Skeptical of the current euphoria surrounding the commercialization
of culture, a distinguished group of contributors apply a
comparative and historical perspective to probe how creative works
have affected the global economy. Drawing on lessons from urban
planning, art history, and cultural spectacles alike, "Creative
Urban Milieus "will change the way we think about the symbiotic
relationship between cities and innovation.
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