Cinema Beyond the City

Cinema is often perceived as a metropolitan medium – an entertainment product of the big city and for the big city. Yet film exhibitors have been bringing moving pictures to towns and villages since the early days of itinerant shows. This volume presents for the first time an exploration of the social, cultural and economic dynamics of film culture in the European countryside.

Spanning more than a century of film exhibition from the early twentieth-century to the present day, Cinema Beyond ...