Richard Maltby & Daniel Biltereyst 
Explorations in New Cinema History [EPUB ebook] 
Approaches and Case Studies

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

Table des matières

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Part 1 Mapping Cinema Experiences.

1 New Cinema Histories (Richard Maltby).

2 Reimagining the History of the Experience of Cinema in a
Post-Moviegoing Age (Robert C. Allen).

3 Putting Cinema History on the Map: Using GIS to Explore the
Spatiality of Cinema (Jeffrey Klenotic).

4 What to do with Cinema Memory? (Annette Kuhn).

Part 2 Distribution, Programming and Audiences.

5 Social Class, Experiences of Distinction and Cinema in Postwar
Ghent (Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers and Lies Van de
Vijver).

6 Distribution and Exhibition in The Netherlands,
1934-1936 (Clara Pafort-Overduin).

7 Patterns in First-Run and Suburban Filmgoing in Sydney in the
mid-1930s (John Sedgwick).

8 From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood):
Exhibition and Distribution in Australia (Mike Walsh).

9 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 (Peter Krämer).

10 Blindsiding: Theatre Owners, Political Action and Industrial
Change in Hollywood, 1975-1985 (Deron Overpeck).

Part 3 Venues and their Publics.

11 ‘No Hits, No Runs, Just Terrors’: Exhibition,
Cultural Distinctions and Cult Audiences at the Rialto Cinema in
the 1930s and 1940s (Tim Snelson and Mark Jancovich).

12 Going Underground with Manny Farber and Jonas Mekas: New
York’s Subterranean Film Culture in the 1950s and 1960s
(Peter Stanfield).

13 Searching for the Apollo: Black Moviegoing and its Contexts
in the Small-Town US South (Arthur Knight).

14 Film Distribution in the Diaspora: Temporality, Community and
National Cinema (Deb Verhoeven).

Part 4 Cinema, Modernity and the Local.

15 The Social Biograph: Newspapers as Archives of the Regional
Mass Market for Movies (Paul S. Moore).

16 Modernity for Small Town Tastes: Movies at the 1907
Cooperstown, New York, Centennial (Kathryn
Fuller-Seeley).

17 Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India
(Stephen Putnam Hughes).

18 The Last Bemboka Picture Show: 16 mm Cinema as Rural
Community Fundraiser in the 1950s (Kate Bowles).

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

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.