Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context

Chapter 1 Introduction: Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context—Not Just a Slower Transition to Modernity

Chapter 2 The Use of Geographical Categories in Cinema Studies: An Ontological Examination

Chapter 3 Kanda’s Grounds and the Ritual Experience of Rural Cinema in Narok, Kenya

Chapter 4 The Business of ‘Wholesome Entertainment’: The Mascioli Film Circuit of Northeastern Ontario

Chapter 5 Spaces In-Between: The Railway and Early Cinema in Rural, Western Canada

Chapter 6 Rurban Outfitters: Cinema and Rural Cultural Development in New Hampshire’s North Country, 1896–1917

Chapter 7 Oral Memories of Cinema-Going in Rural Italy of the 1950s

Chapter 8 Belgian Film Culture Beyond the Big City: Cinema-Going in the Provincial and Rural Periphery of Antwerp

Chapter 9 The Social Experience of Going to the Movies in the 1930s–1960s in a Small Texas Border Town: Moviegoing Habits and Memories of Films in Laredo, Texas

Chapter 10 The Social Geography of ‘Going Out’: Teenagers and Community Cinema in Rural Australia

Chapter 11 Projecting Modernity: Sol Plaatje’s Touring Cinema Exhibition in 1920s South Africa

Chapter 12 Controlling Rural Cinemagoing by Appropriating a Film Format: The Catholic Adventure of ‘Pathé-Rural’ in Interwar France

Chapter 13 UNESCO, Mobile Cinema, and Rural Audiences: Exhibition Histories and Instrumental Ideologies of the 1940s

Chapter 14 Reconsidering Post-Revolutionary Cultural Change: Rural Film Projection Teams in Shaanxi Province, 1949–1956

Chapter 15 Silence under the Linden Tree: Rural Cinema-Going in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapter 16 Language and Cultural Nearness: Film Programming Strategies and Audience Preferences in Big Cities and Small Towns in the Netherlands 1934–1936

Chapter 17 Post-war Thai Cinema: Audiences and Film Style in a Divided Nation

Chapter 18 Youth, Leisure, and Modernity in the Film One Summer of Happiness (1951): Exploring the Space of Rural Film Exhibition in Swedish Post-war Cinema

Chapter 19 Cine Centímetro: Memories and Cinemagoing Practices in an MGM Replica Cinema in the Rio de Janeiro Countryside