Suitable for year 12 and 13 and equivalent students
The study of cinema exhibition
offers us a fascinating insight into the unique relationship between the moving
image and its audiences. This illustrated talk, suitable for students working
in a wide range of subjects - including Film and Media, English, History and
Sociology - will investigate the way in which our experience of cinema has
developed from the very intimate and personal ‘peephole viewing’ of Edison’s
kinetoscope to the truly social, immersive experiences we recognise today.
We’ll take in the lavish 1,000+ seater auditorium or ‘dream palace’, the
‘drive-in’ popular with American youths, the bespoke movie theatre and the
multiplex. And we’ll consider whether the increasingly popular ‘pop up’ cinema,
site-specific screenings and the ‘open cinema’ movement (aimed at extending
exhibition to excluded communities) is the future of independent cinema exhibition
in the UK.
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