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11th July 2010, Leicester - From Silent Screen to Digital Screen: A Century of Cinema Exhibition
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This two-day conference, hosted by the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre in De Montfort University's Faculty of Humanities, will take place at Phoenix Square, Leicester on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July 2010.
The conference will celebrate a century of cinema exhibition since the Cinematograph Act 1909, which was the first major legislation relating to moving pictures, which came into force on 1st January 1910.
Proposals are invited for papers 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 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Steve Chibnall ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by 14th May 2010.
This two-day conference, hosted by the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre in De Montfort University's Faculty of Humanities, will take place at Phoenix Square, Leicester on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th July 2010.
The conference will celebrate a century of cinema exhibition since the Cinematograph Act 1909, which was the first major legislation relating to moving pictures, which came into force on 1st January 1910.
Proposals are invited for papers 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 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Steve Chibnall ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by 14th May 2010.
