Affiliation:
1. the University of Stirling
Abstract
This chapter explains how film exhibition works as a civic amenity, by
examining the community cinema sector. Going back to the itinerant
beginnings of film exhibition, this chapter considers specific examples
of non-theatrical screening in the 16mm era in Scotland, as a vanguard
of ‘useful’ cinema and a point of reference for contemporary phenomena.
Focusing on exhibition activity in Scotland’s rural areas, this chapter
foregrounds the village hall or public hall as a screening space, and
discusses the organizational models that tend to produce it. The focus on
provision and access to first-run films challenges metropolitan perspectives
on pop-up exhibition which have tended to frame it in the context
of a saturated cultural market.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press