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Richard Butsch <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:54:56 -0500
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'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

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