A �poor man�s pleasure�: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorde Almeida, Fernanda Pinto
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-29T13:28:52Z
dc.date.available2023-03-29T13:28:52Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractWhat do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the emergence of new publics.Drawing on scholarship on the development of cinema in SouthAfrica, the article considers how the historical transformationsthrough which the cinema has passed since the 1910s suggestattempts to domesticate the space of projection of the cinema aswell as the formation of new cinema audiences. Diverging fromreadings of the cinema in South Africa that focus onfilm, thearticle considers how the cinema house is inscribed in thisscholarship as an evocative cipher of incipient publics and as ametaphor for the containment of a new public sphere during theperiods of segregation and Apartheid.en_US
dc.identifier.citationde Almeida, F. P. (2023). A �poor man�s pleasure�: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 36(3�4), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2166967en_US
dc.identifier.issn1992-6049
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2023.2166967
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/8706
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectSegregationen_US
dc.subjectApartheiden_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.titleA �poor man�s pleasure�: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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