More than making do: Rethinking cinema attendance in regional and rural Australia

Aveyard, Karina (2011) More than making do: Rethinking cinema attendance in regional and rural Australia. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 5 (1). pp. 7-17.

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Abstract

Cinema is one of the most popular forms of cultural entertainment in contemporary rural Australia, yet very little is understood about film circulation, presentation and consumption in non-metropolitan locations. Despite a growing interest in the situation of rural cinema by film historians, scholars have been slow to engage with the detail and meaning of its more recent past. The preoccupation with the connections between cinema and contemporary modernity have tended to over-estimate the significance of the metropolitan and to obscure the diversity and richness of cinema-going practice in Australia. Drawing on analysis of national box office data and material from a microstudy conducted in the rural town of Merimbula on the far south coast of New South Wales, this article seeks to contribute to addressing this gap. It considers three key questions—Who is watching films at the cinema in rural Australia? Why are they watching? And what do these acts of consumption mean?

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Depositing User:	Julie Frith
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2012 08:53
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 02:47
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/38909
DOI:	10.1386/sac.5.1.7_1

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