"That Pleasant Feeling of Peaceful Coziness": Cinema Exhibition in a Dutch Mining District During the Inter-War Period, Film History 17.1 (2005) 148-159.

This essay describes the history of the cinema exhibitors in a Dutch mining district through studying their business strategies and the shifting relations they enjoyed with the local community, in order to reconstruct the development of their profession between the world wars. The cinema exhibitor acted as an intermediary, not only between the local, the national and international contexts, but also in drawing the novelty of cinema into the cultural and social life of the region. Bourgeois elites, represented in government and church authorities, were anxious to exert control over commercial e... Mehr ...