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- Title
The Persistent Transience of Microcinema (in the United States and Canada).
- Authors
DE VILLE, DONNA
- Abstract
While the film industry has standardized exhibition and consumption practices to some extent, as exemplified in the multiplex model, some diversity remains within this field of cultural production. Microcinema provides one such variation or, as many practitioners would assert, a reaction against mainstream exhibition, and to a lesser degree institutional practices. This article discusses the transient but persistent nature of microcinema. It also provides a much-needed historical analysis of the transition from previous alternative film exhibition venues, like the art house, to the contemporary practice of microcinema, given that film history has largely neglected and underdocumented this significant yet ephemeral phenomenon.
- Subjects
MONTREAL (Quebec); TORONTO (Ont.); NEW York (N.Y.); AUSTIN (Tex.); INDEPENDENT films -- History &; criticism; MOTION picture screenings; ART house films; MOTION picture exhibitions; HISTORY
- Publication
Film History, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 3, p104
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/filmhistory.27.3.104