A HoMER Network Conference on the History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception Hosted by the Circuits of Cinema Project Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada 22 to 24 June 2017 (Thursday to Saturday) Pre-Conference 21 June 2017: Mapping Movies “data-sharing” workshop
We are hosting 100 presentations by authors of research on movie and other media distribution, from all eras and places.
Circuits of Cinema will be a forum for presentations of historicized or comparative research on movie distribution and media infrastructures of cultural exchange. Presenters should foreground the mechanics and conditions that allow cinema to happen, and should scrutinize the planning and negotiations too often hidden in back offices and filing cabinets. Presenters at Circuits of Cinema will collectively provide a spectrum of critical analysis on aspects of media distribution ranging from classical Hollywood’s global circulation, to histories of local and regional film circuits, to conditions in today’s networked media spaces.
Panels are organized into three sub-themes:
Chains of Command: Patterns behind Hollywood’s Standard Practices
Transformative Distribution: Inter-Cultural, Diasporic and Transnational Circuits
Distributing Alternatives: Circuits to the Social, Aesthetic and Economic Margins
New Terrain Keynote Panels | Leading Research by Emerging & Senior Scholars
Members of the Circuits of Cinema Project: Paul S. Moore, Ryerson University Jessica L. Whitehead, York and Ryerson Universities Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University Deb Verhoeven, Deakin University Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, University of Texas-Austin Jeffrey Klenotic, University of New Hampshire