A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2020; you can also visit the original URL.
The file type is application/pdf.
Ethnography as a tool of cinema history
2016
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Preserved Fulltext
This article shows the heuristic value of a film consumption study that combines oral archives and fieldwork with written sources. Oral archives on film consumption provided by a local film market of Longwy, an industrial town of north-eastern France, during the 1950s allow the researcher to reconstruct the audience's collective experience of the films released on this market. Combined with a systematic study of local releases and their box office, they give us access to the artistic expertise
doi:10.33178/alpha.11.04
fatcat:3fhzpbko45ahhj4wbnf46m63ve