Ephemeral Cinema Spaces : : Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community / / Maria Vélez-Serna.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Vélez-Serna, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of figures --; Introduction --; 1. Unstable constellations: Recognizing cinema out of place --; 2. Relocations: Mapping the non-theatrical field in Scotland --; 3. A desire for the civic: Community cinemas and volunteer work --; 4. Film clubs and subcultural cinephile spaces --; 5. On the ground: Participatory screenings in everyday spaces --; 6. Crafting the extraordinary: site-specificity and liveness --; 7. Against enclosure: DIY exhibition as prefigurative action --; Coda --; Acknowledgements --; About the author --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048537822; 9783110689556; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532; 9783110696301
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048537822?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Maria Vélez-Serna.

With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the last decade has seen a surge in interest for screening films in other, temporary public settings. This desire to turn pubs, galleries, parks, and even boats, into temporary cinema spaces is moved not only by a love for movies, but also a search for ways of being and working together. This book documents current practices of pop-up and site-specific cinema exhibition in the UK (with a focus on Scotland), tracing their links with historical forms of non-theatrical exhibition such as public hall cinema and fairground bioscopes. Through archival research, observation and interviews, the project asks how exhibitors create ephemeral social spaces, and how the combination of film and venue reinvents cinema as device and as social practice.