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.

Montreal Film Exhibitors

My research investigates the relationship between the local agents involved in film exhibition and the vertically integrated transnational networks that allegedly monopolized the Canadian film market starting in the late silent era. I seek to, firstly, establish the site of the ownership and control of the main theatre chains operating in Canada (and more particularly […]

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 […]

Barcelona’s Cinema History

The study is concerned with the social history of an important cultural institution in the formation and appropriation of culture and national identity as it is a culturally Spanish film industry.

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 […]