Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
 Introduction: Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context—Not Just a Slower Transition to Modernity  (Daniela Treveri Gennari, Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O’Rawe)....Pages 1-13
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 The Use of Geographical Categories in Cinema Studies: An Ontological Examination  (Elisa Ravazzoli)....Pages 17-29
 Kanda’s Grounds and the Ritual Experience of Rural Cinema in Narok, Kenya  (Solomon Waliaula)....Pages 31-45
 The Business of ‘Wholesome Entertainment’: The Mascioli Film Circuit of Northeastern Ontario  (Jessica L. Whitehead)....Pages 47-70
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 Spaces In-Between: The Railway and Early Cinema in Rural, Western Canada  (Paul S. Moore)....Pages 73-89
 Rurban Outfitters: Cinema and Rural Cultural Development in New Hampshire’s North Country, 1896–1917  (Jeffrey Klenotic)....Pages 91-113
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 Oral Memories of Cinema-Going in Rural Italy of the 1950s  (Danielle Hipkins, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O’Rawe, Silvia Dibeltulo, Sarah Culhane)....Pages 117-133
 Belgian Film Culture Beyond the Big City: Cinema-Going in the Provincial and Rural Periphery of Antwerp  (Philippe Meers, Daniël Biltereyst)....Pages 135-154
 The Social Experience of Going to the Movies in the 1930s–1960s in a Small Texas Border Town: Moviegoing Habits and Memories of Films in Laredo, Texas  (José Carlos Lozano, Philippe Meers, Daniël Biltereyst)....Pages 155-170
 The Social Geography of ‘Going Out’: Teenagers and Community Cinema in Rural Australia  (Karina Aveyard)....Pages 171-183
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 Projecting Modernity: Sol Plaatje’s Touring Cinema Exhibition in 1920s South Africa  (Jacqueline Maingard)....Pages 187-202
 Controlling Rural Cinemagoing by Appropriating a Film Format: The Catholic Adventure of ‘Pathé-Rural’ in Interwar France  (Mélisande Leventopoulos)....Pages 203-218
 UNESCO, Mobile Cinema, and Rural Audiences: Exhibition Histories and Instrumental Ideologies of the 1940s  (Ian Goode)....Pages 219-235
 Reconsidering Post-Revolutionary Cultural Change: Rural Film Projection Teams in Shaanxi Province, 1949–1956  (Matthew D. Johnson)....Pages 237-260
 Silence under the Linden Tree: Rural Cinema-Going in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s  (Lucie Česálková)....Pages 261-279
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 Language and Cultural Nearness: Film Programming Strategies and Audience Preferences in Big Cities and Small Towns in the Netherlands 1934–1936  (Clara Pafort-Overduin)....Pages 283-302
 Post-war Thai Cinema: Audiences and Film Style in a Divided Nation  (Mary J. Ainslie)....Pages 303-324
 Youth, Leisure, and Modernity in the Film One Summer of Happiness (1951): Exploring the Space of Rural Film Exhibition in Swedish Post-war Cinema  (Åsa Jernudd)....Pages 325-337
 Cine Centímetro: Memories and Cinemagoing Practices in an MGM Replica Cinema in the Rio de Janeiro Countryside  (Talitha Ferraz)....Pages 339-355
Back Matter ....Pages 357-368