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

> 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)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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