Book description
Explorations in New Cinema History
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.
- Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, John
Sedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
among others
- Develops 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
- Explores 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
- Prompts readers to reassess their understanding of key periods of
cinema history, opening up cinema studies to long-overdue
conversations with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences
- Presents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digital
technology and geospatial information systems to provide
illuminating insights in to the uses of cinema
Richard Maltby
is Professor of Screen Studies and Executive Dean of the Faculty of
Education, Humanities and Law at Flinders University, South Australia.
He has written and edited several books and articles on cinema history,
including
Hollywood Cinema
(Blackwell, 2003).
Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at
Ghent University, Belgium, and has written widely on the subject of
film culture and controversy in the public sphere.
Philippe Meers is Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies
at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published variedly on
historical and contemporary cinema culture and audiences.
