Screen culture Tamaulipas
Cinema culture in Tamaulipas (1895-1992)
Screen culture Barranquilla
Cinema culture in Barranquilla (1895-1992)
Digital screen culture to the test
This research project focuses upon young people’s engagement with digital screen culture in Flanders.
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 […]
Visual Communities
Comparative analysis of film preferences in Europe.
Social history of film-going in colonial south India
Social history of film-going in colonial south India
Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life: A study of cinema-going in its peak and decline
The project, Swedish Cinema and Everyday Life: A study of cinema-going in its peak and decline (2019-2022), aims to further our knowledge of how cinema was present in the lives of people in 1950s and 1960s Sweden and to deepen our understanding of how cinema-going is remembered as woven into the fabric of everyday life.
Provincialising Bollywood
Among the many histories that can possibly be written of Indian cinemas, one would be around the axes of family audience. In mainstream cinema addressing bourgeois urban audiences traditionally addressing the family as the smallest unit of spectatorship, cinema was already situating itself in contrast with the public life in Indian cities where the place […]
Sensationalism and early cinema
Reception of 1920s US cinema
My Ph.D. dissertation (defended 2011) looked at how 1920s US cinema reception discourses organized audiencing processes as a blurring of perceptual frontiers, and notably as regards to the expectation of « realism ». I am now engaged in refining my understanding of 1920s US film reception by focusing on its intermedial dimension.