The Multiplex in India
I have a longstanding interest in audiences for Indian films and their formation within particular exhibition networks, economies and environments. To date, my research has encompassed dispersed transnational audiences for playback media, crossover audiences in the festival circuit and cinema audiences in different parts of the world. As part of this wider interest in exhibition, […]
Cinema Mass Consumption and the Commercialization of Youth Culture
The proposed research program aims to generate a better understanding of the role that cinema has played in the commodification of culture and the emergence of consumption-based lifestyles in relation to the emergence of post-war consumer society and against the backdrop of increased social and geographic mobility. It takes the Netherlands as a case study […]
Lost Audiences in Italy
This project addresses the gap in knowledge about the Italian cinema-going public of the 1940s and 1950s, for whom cinema was by far the most popular pastime.
Movie going in the Netherlands
History of film exhibition and movie going in the Netherlands
Movie-going distribution and exhibition in German-occupied Belgium
I am investigating (1) the German ‘reorganisation’ of the Belgian film sector in World War II, (2) its effects on film distribution, film exhibition, movie-going, film reception, film production… I have been working/publishing on this subject since 2003, initially as a post-doctoral researcher and now (as associate professor) as a long-term project. I am, simultaneously, […]
Reception of Hollywood in Turkey
Cinema and modernization in the Early Republican Period in Turkey (PhD thesis)
Dutch Films with a Dutch Heart
The popularity of Dutch films at the time the first Dutch sound feature films were produced 1934- 1936, in particular three so called Jordaan films. These were melodramatic films with a comic touch and larded with many songs, set in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Amsterdam (the Jordaan) and based on popular theatre plays […]
Silent Cinema in Norway 1910/1925
This dissertation examines the emergence of the cinema as an institution in Norway, with particular emphasis on the years 1910 and 1925.
Early Cinema-going in Colonial Indonesia
The research focuses on the exhibition, production and consumption of moving pictures in the Dutch colonies of the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia). It examines the development of the local cinema-going scene within the multicultural popular entertainment culture, which consisted of local and imported forms of public amusements, studying the adaptation and hybridisation processes that moving […]
Male Cinephiles and Female Movie-Fans
My research focuses on popular film audiences in Paris in the years immediately following the Great War. The rising number of periodicals in these years means that an enormous amount of data about film tastes can be collected from letter columns. The letter columns, which were a common feature of film periodicals, were inundated with […]
