'AMERICAN CINEMA AND EVERYDAY LIFE' The Commonwealth Fund conference on American History of 2003 will be held at University College London on 26th-28th June. The theme of the conference will be 'American Cinema and Everyday Life.' Up to 60 papers on the social experience of film-going will be discussed. Among the issues considered will be: how did cinema become a part of everyday life for so many Americans? What was the nature of filmic exhibition? How did the experience of movie-going differ at different times and places within the United States? How were audiences themselves constituted in social and economic terms? To what extent was the experience of film-going itself shaped and influenced by such factors as the gender, race, class, and ethnicity of members of the audience? How important to film-goers were the physical and social contexts of movie-going? How did spectators create meanings for themselves out of the films they viewed? How, if at all, did the influence of such constructed meanings extend beyond the immediate context of film-going, affecting aspects of spectators' own lives? Did foreign audiences respond in the same way as American audiences to American cinema? For more information on the conference and a registration form, see the conference website: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/cf2003 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite