Film Exhibition
The Italian Context
Edited by Damien Pollard and Edward Bowen
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ISBN: 978-1-839541-99-5 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99 ISBN: 978-1-839542-00-8 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839542-01-5 (JSTOR ebook) Film exhibition encompasses all the ways in which film texts are placed in front of audiences, and it has taken myriad, varied forms in Italy. For example, early silent films were often exhibited by travelling projectionists, while in the 1920s and 1930s films were often shown through political cine-clubs. More recently, Italy’s extensive network of single-screen cinemas has increasingly given way to urban multiplexes, which in turn have been brought to crisis point by Italy’s experience of Covid-19 and the rise of online film distribution. The history of exhibition practice in Italy frames movie-going in political, economic, legal, sociological and architectural terms, and it provides a fascinating insight into cinema’s enduring inextricability from wider issues of social space and cultural life. Damien Pollard is a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Edward Bowen is Assistant Teaching Professor of Italian at the University of Kansas.
Bibliography entry: Pollard, Damien, and Edward Bowen (eds), Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, Moving Image, 16 (Legenda, 2024) First footnote reference: 35 Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, ed. by Damien Pollard and Edward Bowen, Moving Image, 16 (Legenda, 2024), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Pollard and Bowen, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Pollard, Damien, and Edward Bowen (eds). 2024. Film Exhibition: The Italian Context, Moving Image, 16 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Pollard and Bowen 2024: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Pollard and Bowen 2024: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Film-Exhibition www.mhra.org.uk/publications/mi-16 |
Summer 2024