Undergraduate Communication Arts students in “Film History: Theory & Method” at UNH Manchester recently collaborated on a research project about the history of movie theaters in Nashua, NH. As they moved forward with their work, they shared their progress on a project Facebook page. The outcome was a 90-minute self-guided walking tour created with ArcGIS StoryMaps. […]
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Undergraduate Communication Arts students in “Film History: Theory & Method” at UNH Manchester recently collaborated on a research project about the history of movie theaters in Manchester, NH. The outcome was a 90-minute self-guided walking tour created with ArcGIS StoryMaps. The project begins with an overview of locations in the tour, including a photograph of
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Happy to share word of an exciting new issue of TMG Journal for Media History (Vol. 23, No. 1/2, 2020) devoted to the study of “localities” and comparative histories of moviegoing. Thunnis van Oort and Jessica Whitehead edited the issue, which is open access. My contribution, Mapping Flat, Deep, and Slow: On the ‘Spirit of Place’ in New
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The last ten years have brought significant advances in the collection of empirical cinema history data. Scholars working alone as well as those participating as members in interdisciplinary and increasingly international research teams have begun to excavate not only the expansive historical geography of cinema exhibition sites, but also the temporal trajectories of countless film
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In April 2019, I was pleased to attend the second symposium of the Irish Audiences Research Network, hosted by the Film & Screen Media Department at University College Cork. The symposium’s focus was on “Exploring cinema-going past and present: memory, cultures, place” and the participants showcased the dynamic research now being done to excavate, record, and map experiences and memories of cinema and
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In a 2014 essay, “Space, Place and the Female Film Exhibitor: The Transformation of Cinema in Small Town New Hampshire,” I studied the case of film exhibitor May Burnham Richardson, who owned and operated the Star Theatre in Milford, NH from 1912 to 1920. Richardson was a suffragist and one of roughly two dozen women
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