More sinned against that sinning: the fabrications of pre-code cinema

Melbourn

‘O’ jak obrzydliwe. Kultura amerykańska i angielska krytyka

Publikacja została sfinansowana ze środków Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki w ramach projektu nr 12H 11 0004 8

The public enemy

Melbourne, VI

Cinema, audiences and modernity: new perspectives on European cinema history

Cinema, Audiences and Modernity is part of a ‘new cinema history’ movement within film and screen studies. This movement aims to look beyond the understanding of cinema’s history as concerned only with films and their production, and instead concentrate on the social experience of cinema. It has as its aim a rewriting of cinema history ‘from below’ – from the perspectives of its audiences. This collection sheds new light on the cinema and modernity debate by confronting established theories of the role of the modern cinematic experience with new empirical work on the social experience of cinemagoing, film audiences and film exhibition in Europe. The case studies also provide a ‘how to’ compendium of current methodologies for researchers and students working on film and media audiences, film and media experiences, and historical reception. The contributions to this book reflect on the very different ways in which cinema has been accepted, rejected or disciplined as an agent of modernity in neighbouring parts of Europe, and on how cinemagoing has been promoted and regulated as a popular social practice at different times in twentieth-century European history

Filter characterisations of the extendibility of continuous functions.

Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.Abstract available in PDF

Mapping the movies: the Australian cinemas map

As part of our current ARC project ‘Mapping the Movies’, Dr. Mike Walsh and I are developing a geodatabase of Australian cinemas, covering the period from 1948 to 1971 and based on a consistent dataset found in the trade journal Film Weekly, providing basic information on the ownership, location, and capacity of approximately 4,000 venues. A principal purpose of the database is to provide an opportunity for crowdsourcing information about the venues from other material available on the web and from the interested public. We expect to engage the interest of organisations devoted to the history and preservation of cinemas and of school teachers developing local history projects under the national curriculum. The information gathered will include details of screening programs, photographs, and digitised newspaper reports. Funded by an eResearchSA Summer Scholarship, we are developing a set of templates for collection of crowdsourcing data and extend the website to manage and use the additional information. A broader aim of the project is to develop a generic open source geodatabase for use by Digital Humanities researchers who want to map relatively small scale datasets. The system is focused around a database structure that supports the definition of objects with metadata, allowing additional objects to be added to the system without the need to significantly change the underlying database structure. The system is focused on easy implementation and management, needing high-level IT skills for only brief periods in the establishment of a project, to define objects in the database and in the programming code, and customise the user interface to meet their specific needs. The paper will describe the evolution of the research project and demonstrate the website.Australian Academy of the Humanities; the ANU College of Arts and Social Science