Beyond Early Cinema: Persistence of Travelling Cinema Throughout the Twentieth Century

Program
Programme

9.30 Welcoming coffee Café, accueil

9.45
Morgan Corriou (Paris 8), Caroline Damiens (Paris Nanterre), Mélisande Leventopoulos (Paris 8): “Introduction”
Judith Thissen (Utrecht University): “Towards a Typology of Travelling Cinema”

10.45 Coffee Break Pause

11.00 Travelling cinema experiences in socialist spaces
Thomas Lahusen (University of Toronto): “From Moscow to Local Community: Soviet Travelling Cinema in Riazan and Kyrgyzstan”
Ningsi Song (Université Aix-Marseille): “Travelling Cinema Practices in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution (1970-1976)”
Jonathan Larcher (Université Paris Nanterre): “Distant Echoes. Memories of Travelling Projections in Socialist Romania (1980-1990)”

12.30 Lunch Déjeuner

14.30 Institutions of travelling cinema after the Second World War
Ian Goode (University of Glasgow): “Mobile Cinema and Cinema-Going in the Post-War Highlands and Islands of Scotland”
Katerina Loukopoulou (Middlesex University London): “The Viewing Dispositifs of the Marshall Plan: the Case of a Showboat’s Travelling Cinema”

15.30 Coffee Break Pause

16.00 Interpreting audiences of travelling cinema
Åsa Jernudd (Örebro University): “Elite, Urban and Simpleminded Rural Cinema Cultures in 1960s Sweden: Challenging a Historical Stereotype with a Case Study of the Travelling Cinema Skandia Bio”
Vincent Bouchard (Indiana University Bloomington): “Film Propaganda and Audience Reception in Colonial Algeria: The SDC”
Paul S. Moore (Toronto Metropolitan University): “Small-Gauge in the Great White North: A Critique of Canadian Government Data on Itinerant 16mm Exhibitors, 1938-1976”

17.30 Concluding Remarks:
Arthur Asseraf (University of Cambridge, visiting professor for the project “Community Building at the Cinema” professeur invité du projet « Faire communauté(s) face à l’écran »)

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Workshop of the “Community Building at the Cinema” Project
Atelier du projet « Faire communauté(s) face à l’écran »
organised by organisé par : Morgan Corriou, Caroline Damiens, Mélisande Leventopoulos

With the collaboration of Avec la collaboration de Nolwenn Briand (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

Contacts: morgan.corriou@univ-paris8.fr, caroline.damiens@parisnanterre.fr, melisande.leventopoulos@gmail.com

Project funded by the ComUE UPL as part of its call for projects 2022 Projet financé par la ComUE UPL dans le cadre de son appel à projets 2022.
This work benefited from a government grant under the ‘Investissements d’avenir’ programme (ANR-17-EURE-0008). Ce travail a bénéficié d’une aide de l’Etat gérée par l’Agence nationale de la recherche au titre du programme d’Investissements d’avenir portant la référence ANR-17-EURE-0008.