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Notes on the Concept of Cultural Series

March 16, 2015

In 2013 the Media & Performance Seminar here at Utrecht University was dedicated to the concept of “series”. In one of the sessions I presented a paper on the concept of “Cultural Series”, proposed by Gaudreault at the 1996 conference on Méliès held at Cerisy la Salle. I reworked that presentation into a working document […]

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

- “The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema” in: Ian Christie (ed.), Audiences. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, pp. 35-44.

- “Die Imagination des Zuschauers – der imaginierte Zuschauer” in: Julian Hanich, Hans-Jürgen Wulff (ed.), Auslassen, andeuten, auffüllen. Der Film und die Imagination des Zuschauers. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012, pp. 181-189.

- “The Féerie Between Stage and Screen” in: André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo (ed.), A Companion to Early Cinema. Malden, MA, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, pp. 64-79.

- (with Sabine Lenk) “Les images en mouvement au théâtre de variétés: le cas de l’Apollo de Düsseldorf” in: Marta Braun et al. (ed.) Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema. New Barnet: John Libbey, 2012, pp. 247-254.