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[ecrea] From Silent Screen to Digital Screen: A Century of Cinema Exhibition

Thu Apr 22 13:24:57 GMT 2010



From Silent Screen to Digital Screen: A Century of Cinema Exhibition

Two-day Conference
Phoenix Square, Leicester
Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th July 2010

The conference, hosted by the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre in De Montfort University’s Faculty of Humanities, will celebrate a century of cinema exhibition since the Cinematograph Act 1909, which was the first major legislation relating to moving pictures, came into force on 1 January 1910.

Proposals are invited on any aspect of cinema exhibition including: audiences, technologies, cinema design and building, programming, legislation and other aspects of the cinemagoing experience.

Plenary speakers include: Richard Gray (Cinema Theatres Association), Allen Eyles, Tim Brown (Duke of York cinema, Brighton) and Laraine Porter (Phoenix Square)

Please send abstracts (500 words) with short biography including contact details to Stuart Hanson ((shanson /at/ dmu.ac.uk)) and Steve Chibnall ((schib /at/ dmu.ac.uk)) by 14th May 2010.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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