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Day 1 : Thursday, April 15
9:00 AM: Introduction/Welcome: Ana M. López, Tulane University
9.10 AM: Session 1: What are “New” Cinema Histories? Some reflections from the Cultura de la Pantalla project
Moderator: Ana M. López
- Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University), Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp) and José Carlos Lozano (Texas A&M)
9.50 AM.: BREAK
10.00 AM Session 2: Film programming and audiences: Cultura de la Pantalla Project
Moderator : Daniel Biltereyst
- José Carlos Lozano, Blanca Chong, Jorge Nieto Malpica, Efraín Delgado, Brenda Muñoz: “Exhibition of national and foreign films in six Mexican cities during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema: The year of 1952”
- Jerónimo Repoll: “Directrices y expectativas en la experiencia cinematográfica”
- Brenda A. Muñoz, Aída Hernández, Antonio Corona, Miguel Sánchez: “Cinema-going experiences of disappointment in the decade of the 1980s in Saltillo, México”
- Waydi Miranda Pérez, Osiris Chajin: “Cinemagoing memories in Cartagena de Indias 1930s-1970s”
- Talitha Ferraz: “Cinemas in the Age of Corona Virus in Rio de Janeiro: Technonostalgia as Narrative Advocacy”
11.15 AM: BREAK
11.30 AM Session 3: Film distribution: The Oft-Forgotten Sector
Moderator: Irene Rozsa (Tulane University)
- Clara Kriger: “Approaches to the study of film distribution in Buenos Aires in the late 1930s”
- Alejandro Kelly Hopfenblatt:”American distribution companies in Buenos Aires in the 1930s”
- Rafael de Luna Freire: “Film extra”: the specifics consequences of the introduction of multiple-reel feature film in Brazil.
- Irene Rozsa: “Towards the Analysis of Commercial Film Distribution of European Films in Cuba”
Day 2 : Friday, April 16
9.00 AM Session 4: Audiences, Cultures & Memories
Moderator: Philippe Meers
- Maria Luna, Ramiro Arbeláez: “Mapping cinema memories in the disappeared theaters of Cali, Colombia”
- Efraín Delgado Rivera, Jaime Miguel González Chávez, Gerardo Covarrubias: “Cinema and modernity processes in León, Gto., from 1940 to 1970”
- Daylenis Blanco Lobaina: “The role of cinema in the cultural life of Santiago de Cuba (1918 – 1958)”
- Miguel Fernández Labayen, Josetxo Cerdán: “El público del futuro”
10.15 AM: BREAK
10.30 AM Session 5: Movie Going Research and Epistemologies
Moderator: Irene Rozsa
- Nicolas Poppe: “Hollywood Cinema México: Film Exhibition and Moviegoing in San Antonio’s West Side, 1930-1939”
- Luciana Corrêa de Araújo, Carlos Roberto de Souza: “Quadros Júnior and ‘the art of presenting films’ in 1920s São Paulo”
- María Paz Peirano: “Where is the audience? Studying film culture and cinemagoing in Chile”
- Rielle Navitski: “Latin American Cineclubs: A Comparative Look at Programming and Audiences”
- Juan Antonio García Borrrero: “La Enciclopedia Digital del Audiovisual Cubano”
11.45 AM: BREAK
12.00 a.m. Closing Session 6: Where to go from here?
Moderators: Ana López and Philippe Meers
- Plenary conversation on possible collaborations, comparative research projects, (inter)national funding, publication edited volume (s), etc.