Description:
Re-conceptualizes cinema history through findings that work against the trends of Western dominance associated in part with Hollywood in Film Studies
Underlines and illustrates the importance of juxtaposing case studies to find commonalities and anomalies in the rural experience
Addresses how the coding and understanding of films as viewed in uneven rural spaces might challenge an understanding of the globalizing influence of cinema
Review Quotes:
"Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context offers an excellent contribution to the field of audience studies and cinema going. It also benefits from helpful colour images in reproduced local maps and photographs, graphs and charts." (Sian Barber, Film Studies, Vol. 21, 2019)