Title: PALACES FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND INSTRUCTION: A STUDY OF THE EARLY CINEMA IN BIRMINGHAM, 1908–18
Abstract: ‘The cinema involves an aesthetic, a technology, an economy and an audience …’A general tendency among historians of the cinema has been to romanticise its beginnings, to announce the astounding and rapid developments in the technology of film-making, and to concentrate on the persons and personalities of the film-makers and emergent film-stars. That is, the historian as aesthete and technologist. Even notable attempts at a wider history by, for example, Rachael Low and Audrey Field, emphasising not so much the technological and production side but rather that of distribution, presentation and consumption (the economy and the audience), tend to fall short of their promise by their adoption of a methodological approach which places the cinema in a social and political vacuum.
Publication Year: 1985
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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