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Roundtable

Monday, 9.9.2019, 17.30-19.30 Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociale (EHESS), 54 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris The European Rural History Film Database Association promotes the documentation, conservation and study of films on rural history. It maintains a film database which provides an overview over the film production of rural Europe in the 20th century. A selection of more than 100 films are now digitised and open accessible via the Beta-Version of the ERHF-Online-Portal. Roundtable and Presentation of film extracts from the ERH-Film Online-Portal: Dietlind Hüchtker, Leipzig Niccolò Mignemi, Paris Mícheál O’Fathartaigh, Galway Debra A. Reid, Michigan Nadine Vivier, Le Mans…

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Review: Cinema Beyond the City

Judith Thissen & Clemens Zimmermann, (eds.), Cinema Beyond the City. Small-Town & Rural Film Culture in Europe, London: Palgrave 2016/Bloomsbury, 2016, 256 pp., ca. € 85,-, ISBN 9781844578467 (hardcover) and 9781844578481 (e-book). Review by Anton Schuurman, Wageningen University published by TMG Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis Follow this link

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Review: Geschichte(n), Repräsentationen, Fiktionen. Medienarchive als Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungsorte, 2016

Trültzsch-Wijnen, Sascha; Barberi, Alessandro; Ballhausen, Thomas (Ed.): Geschichte(n), Repräsentationen, Fiktionen. Medienarchive als Gedächtnis- und Erinnerungsorte , Herbert van Halem Verlag, Köln 2016, 217pages. Read Review by Markus Behmer on H-Soz-u-Kult Content (PDF)

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CfP: Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption in the Second World War – Workshop

Call for Papers Film Distribution, Exhibition and Consumption in the Second World War: A Workshop on Data Collection and Analysis, Computational Methods and the Opportunities for Comparative Research Organized by: Institut for Media Studies, KU Leuven and Scientific Research Network on Digital Cinema Studies (DICIS) Date: 15.05.2018 - 16.05.2018 Place: Leuven Deadline: 18.12.2017 Further Information: H-Soz-u-Kult

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Rural History 2017

Nine papers about film and cinema were presented in three panels at Rural History2017 in Leuven from 11th to 14th september 2017. Panel 2.2: Transforming rural societies in Europe under the eye of the camera for farm audiences, organised by Peter Veer Pests and Vermin on film: campaigns of eradication against infestation by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (UK), by Karen Sayer Blending agricultural pedagogy and cinematographic narrative: the 'silent revolution' in the agricultural cinema of the 1950s, by Edouard Lynch Rural social engineering in Dutch extension films, 1945-1985, by Peter Veer Representing the countryside in Spanish rural…

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