Workshop Atelier

Beyond Early Cinema: Persistence of Travelling Cinema Throughout the Twentieth Century

Par-delà les premiers temps : persistance du cinéma itinérant au xx^e siècle

October 18, 2022

Musée du quai Branly – Cinema Theater Salle de cinéma

17.00 Film screening Projection du film

The Cinema Travellers (Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya, India, 2016, 96 min)

(free admission, subject to availability Entrée libre, dans la limite des places disponibles)

October 19, 2022

Université Paris Nanterre, Weber Building, room 2 Bâtiment Weber, salle 2

9.30 Welcoming coffee Café, accueil

9.45

Morgan Corriou (Paris 8), Caroline Damiens (Paris Nanterre), Mélisande Leventopoulos (Paris 8): “Introduction”

Judith Thissen (Utrecht University): “Towards a Typology of Travelling Cinema”

10.45 Coffee Break Pause

11.00 Travelling cinema experiences in socialist spaces

Thomas Lahusen (University of Toronto): “From Moscow to Local Community: Soviet Travelling Cinema in Riazan and Kyrgyzstan”

Ningsi Song (Université Aix-Marseille): “Travelling Cinema Practices in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution (1970-1976)”

Jonathan Larcher (Université Paris Nanterre): “Distant Echoes. Memories of Travelling Projections in Socialist Romania (1980-1990)”

12.30 Lunch Déjeuner

14.30 Institutions of travelling cinema after the Second World War

Ian Goode (University of Glasgow): “Mobile Cinema and Cinema-Going in the Post-War Highlands and Islands of Scotland”

Katerina Loukopoulou (Middlesex University London): “The Viewing Dispositifs of the Marshall Plan: the Case of a Showboat’s Travelling Cinema”

15.30 Coffee Break Pause

16.00 Interpreting audiences of travelling cinema

Åsa Jernudd (Örebro University): “Elite, Urban and Simpleminded Rural Cinema Cultures in 1960s Sweden: Challenging a Historical Stereotype with a Case Study of the Travelling Cinema Skandia Bio”

Vincent Bouchard (Indiana University Bloomington): “Film Propaganda and Audience Reception in Colonial Algeria: The SDC”

Paul S. Moore (Toronto Metropolitan University): “Small-Gauge in the Great White North: A Critique of Canadian Government Data on Itinerant 16mm Exhibitors, 1938-1976”

17.30 Concluding Remarks:

Arthur Asseraf (University of Cambridge, visiting professor for the project “Community Building at the Cinema” professeur invité du projet « Faire communauté(s) face à l’écran »)

Workshop of the “Community Building at the Cinema” Project Atelier du projet « Faire communauté(s) face à l’écran » organised by organisé par Morgan Corriou, Caroline Damiens, Mélisande Leventopoulos

With the collaboration of Avec la collaboration de Nolwenn Briand (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne)

contacts: morgan.corriou@univ-paris8.fr, caroline.damiens@parisnanterre.fr, melisande.leventopoulos@gmail.com

Musée du quai Branly: 37, quai Branly

Métro stations: Alma-Marceau, Iéna (line 9), École Militaire (line 8), Bir Hakeim (line 6) or Pont de l’Alma, Champ de Mars-Tour Eiffel (RER C)

Université Paris Nanterre: 200, avenue de la République 92000 Nanterre

Train station: Nanterre Université (RER A, line L from depuis Saint -Lazare)

Programme Beyond Early Cinema