1. New Cinema Histories
- Richard Maltby1,
- Daniel Biltereyst2,
- Philippe Meers3
Published Online: 20 APR 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444396416.ch1
Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Book Title
Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies
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How to Cite
Maltby, R. (2011) New Cinema Histories, in Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (eds R. Maltby, D. Biltereyst and P. Meers), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444396416.ch1
Editor Information
- 1
Flinders University, South Australia
- 2
Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
- 3
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Publication History
- Published Online: 20 APR 2011
- Published Print: 8 APR 2011
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405199490
Online ISBN: 9781444396416
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Keywords:
- mapping cinema experiences;
- emerging international trend in research into cinema history - circulation and consumption;
- achieving critical mass and methodological maturity - a distinct identity;
- new cinema history, and what is new in it - a distinctive approach;
- Haydon White, that ‘historiophoty’- visual image analysis, and different manner of ‘reading’;
- idea of films, forms of mass or popular culture - ‘eloquent social documents’ reflecting flow of contemporary history;
- cinema, historical interest to researchers - proper business of film studies, and study of films;
- cinema memory, type that Kuhn identifies - more situated, context of events in subject's own life;
- place, cinema exhibition attendance - idiosyncrasies of local microhistorical narrative;
- Euro-American historiography, and new cinema history - Krzyszt of Pomian's phrase, ‘shifted their gaze from extraordinary to the everyday’
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