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.)

With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a surge in interest for screening films in other temporary public settings. This desire to turn ruins, pubs, galleries, parks, village halls, and even boats into ephemeral cinema spaces is a search for ways of being and working together, using cinema as a framework for social encounter. This book documents contemporary practices of pop-up and sitespecific 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 with film exhibitors and programmers, the book explores how exhibitors create ephemeral social spaces, how they negotiate the various uses and configurations of films and venues, and how they reinvent cinemagoing from its margins.

Table of Contents

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