{"product_id":"explorations-in-new-cinema-history-9781405199490","title":"Explorations in New Cinema History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" (Choice, 1 November 2011)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes 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\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407932531031,"sku":"9781405199490","price":76.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405199490.jpg?v=1730501001","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/explorations-in-new-cinema-history-9781405199490","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}