Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context

Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context edited by Daniela Treveri Gennari, Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O'Rawe.

Although it has only been in the last decade that the planet’s population balance tipped from a predominantly rural makeup towards an urban one, the field of cinema history has demonstrated a disproportionate skew toward the urban. Within audience studies, however, an increasing number of scholars a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Treveri Gennari, Daniela (Editor), Hipkins, Danielle (Editor), O'Rawe, Catherine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Global Cinema
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures—European influences.
Motion pictures, American.
Africa.
Australasia.
Motion pictures—United States.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context—Not Just a Slower Transition to Modernity
  • Part I Space, Place and Cinema-Going Experiences
  • 2. The Use of Geographical Categories in Cinema Studies: An Ontological Examination
  • 3. Kanda’s Grounds and the Ritual Experience of Rural Cinema in Narok
  • 4. The Business of ‘Wholesome Entertainment’: The Mascioli Film Circuit of Northeastern Ontario
  • Part II Early Cinema, Itinerant Showmen and the Lure of Modernity
  • 5. Spaces In-Between: The Railway and Early Cinema in Rural, Western Canada
  • 6. Rurban Outfitters: Cinema and Rural Cultural Development in New Hampshire’s North Country, 1896–1917
  • Part III Oral Histories and the Social Experience of Rural Cinema-Going
  • 7. Oral Memories of Cinema-Going in Rural Italy of the 1950s
  • 8. Belgian Film Culture Beyond the Big City: Cinema-Going in the Provincial and Rural Periphery of Antwerp
  • 9. The Social Experience of Going to the Movies in the 1930s–1960s in a Small Texas Border Town: Moviegoing Habits and Memories of Films in Laredo, Texas
  • 10. The Social Geography of ‘Going Out’: Teenagers and Community Cinema in Rural Australia
  • Part IV Shaping Cinema Audiences for Educational and Ideological Purposes
  • 11. Projecting Modernity: Sol Plaatje’s Touring Cinema Exhibition in 1920s South Africa
  • 12. Controlling Rural Cinemagoing by Appropriating a Film Format: The Catholic Adventure of 'Pathé-Rural' in Interwar France
  • 13. UNESCO, Mobile Cinema, and Rural Audiences: Exhibition Histories and Instrumental Ideologies of the 1940s
  • 14. Reconsidering Post-Revolutionary Cultural Change: Rural Film Projection Teams in Shaanxi Province, 1949–1956
  • 15. Silence under the Linden Tree: Rural Cinema-Going in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Part V Film Programming Strategies, Exhibition Practices and Reception
  • 16. Language and Cultural Nearness: Film Programming Strategies and Audience Preferences in Big Cities and Small Towns in the Netherlands 1934–1936
  • 17. Post-war Thai Cinema: Audiences and Film Style in a Divided Nation
  • 18. Youth, Leisure, and Modernity in the film One Summer of Happiness (1951): Exploring the Space of Rural Film Exhibition in Swedish Post-war Cinema
  • 19. Cine Centímetro: Memories and Cinemagoing Practices in an MGM Replica Cinema in the Rio de Janeiro Countryside.

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