Moviegoing at the docks in Antwerp and Rotterdam (1910-1990)
ABOUT
From the early days of the cinema, Flanders boasted among the highest cinema attendance per capita on the continent, while their Dutch neighbours were about the least frequent moviegoers of all Europeans. The aim of this project is to map and explain this remarkable difference in the two neighbouring cinema cultures of the two port cities of Antwerp and Rotterdam. The project mainly comprises a comparison of exhibition structures and programming.
FUNDING
Movie-going at the docks. A media historical comparative analysis of cinema cultures in Antwerp (Flanders) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) (1910-1990), Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowship postdoc fellowship, EU/FWO-Flanders, 2015-16.
TEAM / CONTACT
- Van Oort, Th. (2016) Industrial Organization of Film Exhibitors in the Low Countries: Comparing the Netherlands and Belgium, 1945-1960, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (online).
- Biltereyst, D., Van Oort, Th. & Meers, Ph. (2019) Comparing historical cinema cultures: Reflections on new cinema history and comparison with a cross-national case study on Antwerp and Rotterdam, pp. 96-111 in D. Biltereyst, R. Maltby & Ph. Meers (eds.) Companion to New Cinema History. London/New York: Routledge.