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Introduction / Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby And Philippe Meers -- Cinema, Tradition And Community. Spaces Of Early Film Exhibition In Sweden, 1897-1911 / Åsa Jernudd -- Moviegoing Under Military Occupation, Düsseldorf, 1919-1925 / Frank Kessler And Sabine Lenk -- Christ Is Coming To The Elite Cinema: Film Exhibition In The Catholic South Of The Netherlands, 1910s And 1920s / Thunnis Van Oort -- Imagining Modern Hungary Through Film: Debates On National Identity, Modernity And Cinema In Early Twentieth Century Hungary / Ana Manchin -- The Cinematic Shapes Of The Socialist Modernity Programme: Ideological And Economic Parameters Of Cinema Distribution In The Czech Lands, 1948-1970 / Pavel Skopal -- The Management Committee Intend To Act As Ushers: Cinema Operation And The South Wales Miners' Institutes In The 1950s And 1960s / Stefan Moitra -- Audiences, Modernity And Cultural Exchange. Urban Legend: Early Cinema, Modernization, And Urbanization In Germany, 1895-1914 / Annemone Ligensa -- Diagnosis: Flimmeritis: Female Cinema-going In Imperial Germany, 1911-1918 / Andrea Haller -- Afgrunden In Germany: Monopolfilm, Cinema-going And The Emergence Of The Film Star Asta Nielsen, 1910-11 / Martin Loiperdinger -- Little Italy On The Brink: The Italian Diaspora And The Distribution Of War Films In London, 1914-1918 / Pierluigi Ercole -- Hollywood In Disguise: Practices Of Exhibition And Reception Of Foreign Films In Czechoslovakia In The 1930s / Petr Szczepanik -- Negotiating Cinema's Modernity: Strategies Of Control And Audience Experiences Of Cinema In Belgium, 1930s-1960s / Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, Kathleen Lotze And Lies Van De Vijver. Edited By Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby And Philippe Meers. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.