Cinema audiences and modernity: an introduction / Edited by Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers .

Incl. bibliogr. e índice.

Introduction / Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby and Philippe Meers -- Cinema, Tradition and Community. Spaces of Early Film Exhibition in Sweden, 1897-1911 / Åsa Jernudd -- Moviegoing under Military Occupation, Düsseldorf, 1919-1925 / Frank Kessler and Sabine Lenk -- "Christ is coming to the Elite cinema": Film exhibition in the Catholic South of the Netherlands, 1910s and 1920s / Thunnis Van Oort -- Imagining modern Hungary through film: Debates on national identity, modernity and cinema in early twentieth century Hungary / Ana Manchin -- The Cinematic Shapes of the Socialist Modernity Programme: Ideological and Economic Parameters of Cinema Distribution in the Czech Lands, 1948-1970 / Pavel Skopal -- "The Management Committee intend to act as Ushers" : Cinema Operation and the South Wales Miners' Institutes in the 1950s and 1960s / Stefan Moitra -- Audiences, Modernity and Cultural Exchange. Urban legend: Early cinema, modernization, and urbanization in Germany, 1895-1914 / Annemone Ligensa -- Diagnosis: "Flimmeritis": Female Cinema-going in Imperial Germany, 1911-1918 / Andrea Haller -- "Afgrunden" in Germany: Monopolfilm, Cinema-Going and the Emergence of the Film Star Asta Nielsen, 1910-11 / Martin Loiperdinger -- "Little Italy on the Brink": The Italian Diaspora and the Distribution of War Films in London, 1914-1918 / Pierluigi Ercole -- Hollywood in disguise: Practices of exhibition and reception of foreign films in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s / Petr Szczepanik -- Negotiating cinema's modernity: Strategies of control and audience experiences of cinema in Belgium, 1930s-1960s / Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, Kathleen Lotze and Lies Van de Vijver.