Explorations in New Cinema History brings togethercutting-edge research by the leading scholars in the field toidentify new approaches to writing and understanding the social andcultural history of cinema, focusing on cinema's audiences,the experience of cinema, and the cinema as a site of social andcultural exchange.
* Includes contributions from Robert Allen, Annette Kuhn, JohnSedwick, Mark Jancovich, Peter Sanfield, and Kathryn Fuller-Seeleyamong others
* Develops the original argument that the social history ofcinema-going and of the experience of cinema should take precedenceover 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 individualmovie theatres in creating and sustaining their audiences, and thecommercial, political and legal aspects of film exhibition anddistribution
* Prompts readers to reassess their understanding of key periodsof cinema history, opening up cinema studies to long-overdueconversations with other disciplines in the humanities and socialsciences
* Presents rigorous empirical research, drawing on digitaltechnology and geospatial information systems to provideilluminating insights in to the uses of cinema