Ephemeral Cinema Spaces

Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community

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by María A. Vélez-Serna

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, movie theater, viewer

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Collection

Film Culture in Transition

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 228 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-94-6298-654-1

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Maria Antonia Vélez-Serna teaches Film and Media at the University of Stirling. She studied at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the University of Glasgow. She co-edited Early Cinema in Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and has also published on Colombian cinema history.

See the publisher website: Amsterdam University Press