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100 1 _aWallace, Richard
_c(Film teacher),
_eauthor.
_1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjDyWYXwGBBDj7VGPdcyYd
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245 1 0 _aReel change :
_ba history of British cinema from the projection box /
_cRichard Wallace and Jon Burrows ; afterword by Charlotte Brunsdon.
264 1 _aUnited Kingdom :
_bJohn Libby Publishing Ltd.,
_c2022.
264 2 _aBloomington :
_bIndiana University Press,
_c2022.
264 4 _c�2022
300 _a1 online resource (241 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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504 _aIncludes bibliographic references and index.
505 0 _aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Job Descriptions -- The Mobile Array -- The Nitrate Array -- The Xenon Array -- The Multi-Screen Array -- A 'Jack-of-All-Trades' -- Chapter Two: The Art of Cinema Projection -- Projection as an Element of Film Production -- Presentation and Showmanship -- Changing Standards -- Chapter Three: Terms and Conditions -- The British Film Industry's First Union -- Short-lived Militancy -- Organisation Without Unions -- Industrial Conflict -- National Agreements -- Certification and Apprenticeships -- Chapter Four: Digital Projection(s) -- Digital Developments: Image, Standards, Finance -- Discourses of Instability -- Redundancy -- Loss of Agency -- Deskilling -- The Cinema Experience in the Digital Age -- Afterword: In Love with Film Projection by Charlotte Brunsdon -- Appendix: Details of Projectionists Interviewed for this Book -- Bibliography -- Index.
588 0 _aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed February 22, 2023)
520 _aTen years ago, a technological revolution swept through cinemas around the world, as analogue projectors were replaced with digital equipment. It was not just the plastic medium of film that was removed from projection boxes during this transformation, most cinemas took this opportunity to also evict the human projectionists who were hitherto in charge of screenings. Projectionists had been hidden from the sight of audiences for most of the history of photographic moving image projection, and their redundancies went largely unnoticed and unremarked upon. This book focuses attention on what has been happening behind film spectators' heads for the past 130 years and attempts to write the history of cinema in Britain from the perspective of its habitually overlooked and undervalued projectionists, beginning in the silent era and continuing to the present day. Drawing upon extensive archival research and lengthy interviews with former projectionists, it documents the key facets and challenges of their work, and how these evolved in response to previous waves of significant technological change. It evaluates how projectionists helped to design and maintain key aesthetic characteristics of the 20th century big screen experience. It shows how the institution of cinema in Britain has been historically underpinned by the harsh exploitation of projectionists by many employers, detailing inadequate wage levels and poor working conditions that formerly provoked government investigation, and explaining why these problems were never successfully ameliorated by trade unions. It also charts in depth the recent fateful transition to digital projection, delineating how and why projectionists were so swiftly and ruthlessly consigned to the past, and assessing whether this form of entertainment should be considered diminished by their super session.
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700 1 _aBrunsdon, Charlotte,
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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