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 […]
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, […]
Cinemagoing in rural Australia and UK
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 […]
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.
Screen culture Monterrey
Cinema culture in Monterrey 1895-2012
Screen culture Mexico
Cinema culture in Mexico City (1895-1992)
Screen culture Torreon
Cinema culture in Torreón (1895-1992)
