Place of the Audience

Dr Mark Jancovich is Reader and Director of the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. Lucy Faire is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University. Sarah Stubbings is a PhD student in the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.

• Part One: Introduction Chapter One: From Spectatorship to Film Consumption Chapter Two: Contexts of Film Consumption Section Two: The Construction the Cinema: Fairgrounds, Theatres and Spatial Regulation Introduction: Class, Gender and Public Space in Early Film Consumption Chapter Three: Novelties, Fairgrounds and the Exoticisation of Place Chapter Four: Constructing the Cinematograhic Theatre: Purpose Built Cinemas, Community Relations and the Politics of Place Section Three: A Progressive City and its Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance Introduction: Slum Clearance, Cinema Building and Differentiated Experiences Chapter Five: Translating the Talkies: Diffusion, Reception and Live Performance Chapter Six: The City Centre, the Suburbs and the Cinema Building Boom Chapter Seven: Consuming Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance Part Four: Cinema Closures, Post-war Affluence and the Changing Meanings of Cinema and Television Introduction Chapter Eight: Contemporary Understandings of Cinema Closure Chapter Nine: Locality, Affluence and Urban Decay Chapter Ten: From Cinema Going to Television Viewing: The Developing Meanings of a New Medium Chapter Eleven: Negotiating Nostalgia: Modernity, Memory and the Meanings of Place Part Five: Beyond Cinema: Film Consumption in the Information Age Introduction Chapter Twelve: Regulating Reception: Legislation, Time-Shifting and the Sociality of Video Chapter Thirteen: 'The Splendid American Venture on the Ring Road': Multiplexes, Americanisation and Mass Consumption Chapter Fourteen: Cultural Capitals: Culture, Diversity and Legitimacy Chapter Fifteen: Media Revolutions: Futurology, Film Content and the New Media Conclusion

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