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Pafort-Overduin, Clara1 , Lotze, Kathleen2 , Jernudd, Åsa3 and van Oort, Thunnis4
1: Utrecht University , 2: Netherlands Film Academy , 3: Örebro University , 4: University of Amsterdam

2020-11-12

Moving Films: Visualising Film Flow in Three European Cities in 1952

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Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis , Volume 23 - Issue 1-2 p. 1- 49

This article is an international collaboration focusing on three European port cities – Antwerp (Belgium), Gothenburg (Sweden) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) – in 1952, during the golden age of cinema prior to the rise of television. The objective is to test an approach for making transnational comparisons of distribution and exhibition based on film programming data. We use a mixed-method approach that combines data visualisations based on a simple network analysis and time plot visualisations. Our aim is to show how these visualisations can be helpful in characterising and comparing cinema markets in an attempt to answer the question of how films move through a city from one cinema to the other and how this flow can be characterised and compared.

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Keywords Media History, film programming, new cinema history, comparative history, data visualisation, film distribution
Publisher Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Persistent URL doi.org/10.18146/tmg.790
Journal Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis
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Note TMG Journal for Media History; Vol 23, No 1-2 (2020): Comparative Histories of Moviegoing; 1-49
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Pafort-Overduin, Clara, Lotze, Kathleen, Jernudd, Åsa, & van Oort, Thunnis. (2020). Moving Films: Visualising Film Flow in Three European Cities in 1952. Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, 23(1-2), 1–49. doi:10.18146/tmg.790
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