Irish Cinema Histories
Irish Cinema Histories is a collaborative digital research project led by Sarah Culhane (University College Dublin) and Denis Condon (Maynooth University). It draws on archival materials and oral history sources to explore some of the people, places and events that make up Ireland’s rich tapestry of local film culture during the first half of the […]
Closed Cinemas in İzmir City Center as Architectural Heritage
The research subject is the closed cinemas in İzmir city center. Konak is selected as the case district since it hosted the first movie screening events and later the first cinema spaces. Also, it hosts different kinds of neighborhoods that enable it to make a comparison in terms of cinema qualities for potential differences between […]
Movie-going at the docks
From the early days of the cinema, Flanders boasted among the highest cinema attendance per capita on the continent, while their Dutch neighbors were about the least frequent moviegoers of all Europeans. The aim of the project is to map and explain this remarkable difference in the two neighbouring cinema cultures. Can we explain this […]
Cinema Parisien 3D
Between November 2014 and December 2015, we collaborated on building a 3D visualisation of Cinema Parisien, one of the first permanent cinema theatres in Amsterdam, established in 1910 by cinema owner and distributor Jean Desmet (1875-1956). The project aimed to investigate the affordances of 3D modelling for presenting digital cinema heritage in a comprehensive, evocative […]
Cinemaps
The CINEMAPS project aims to map cinema markets in the Netherlands and Flanders in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s in a comparative study, combining a geospatial analysis of cinema density in both areas with data on pillarization, class and the organization and economics of the industry. As such, it will provide an answer to the […]
Enter the Dreamhouse
My research focuses on the role of cinemas in British twentieth-century society. In particular, I am researching how cinemas operated as sites of public emotion and how their spatial characteristics contributed to a permissive and distinct emotional economy far-removed from the cliché of the British stiff-upper-lip. The research explores how and why cinemas became emblematic […]
Cinema Culture in Warsaw, 1895/6-1939: A Transnational Perspective
The interdisciplinary project is situated at the intersection of history and film studies. It proposes to explore the heuristic potential of the cross-disciplinary spatial turn by studying the cinema culture in the multi-ethnic city of Warsaw between the emergence of this form of leisure at the turn of the 20th cen-tury and its destruction in […]
London’s Silent Cinemas
London’s Silent Cinemas explores the history of cinema exhibition in London from the emergence of permanent film venues in 1906 to the end of the silent film era around 1930.
The Paris Cinema Project
The cinemas of Paris between 1925 and 1955.
Mapping Movies
Mapping Movies is a digital discovery environment in which users explore changing landscapes of social and spatial history by investigating the grounded locations and movements of moving pictures. The site promotes spatial thinking and historical inquiry about the relations between media access, public infrastructure, social geography, cultural networks, economic development, community building and collective memory.
