Live Cinema

Sarah Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at King's College London, UK. Helen W. Kennedy is Head of the School of Media at the University of Brighton, UK.

The delightfully paradoxical topic of the 'liveness' of cinema gets excellent airing in this collection of essays drawn from Atkinson & Kennedy's important Live Cinema project. Here, in all their complex glory, are case studies on popup cinema, secret cinema, event cinema, rural cinema, street food cinema, classic pier cinema, film festivals, and more – all of them attesting that different kinds of audience participation are nothing new, even if they are currently taking a whole variety of startling revitalised forms. The editors, their contributing researchers and practitioners offer us not just a rich array of kinds of liveness, but also some vital analytic tools we need to make sense of the range of experiences these offer audiences.

• FOREWORD Barbara Klinger (Barbara Klinger, Indiana University, USA) INTRODUCTION (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London, UK & Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK) Section 1: SpacesSection Introduction (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London, UK & Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK)1. Nostalgia and place making at Los Angeles' Outdoor Movies (Linda Levitt, Stephen F. Austin State University, US) 2. Beyond the Metropolis: Immersive cinema in a rural context (Emma Pett, UEA, UK)3. Pop(-up)ular Culture at the Seaside: The British Pleasure Pier as Screening Space (Lavinia Brydon, University of Kent , UK and Olu Jenzen, University of Brighton, UK) 4. Encountering Urban Space Live at the Floating Cinema (Ella Harris, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Section 2: Temporalities Section Introduction (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London, UK & Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK)1. 'Beyond Film' Experience: Festivalising Practices and Shifting Spectatorship at Glasgow Film Festival (Lesley Ann Dickson, University of Stirling, UK) 2. Maps, grids, instructions: Pop-up cinema going and tourist performance (Maria Antonia Velez Serna, University of Glasgow, UK) 3. Never seen a shot like that before! Playfulness and participatory audiences in San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, (Rosana Vivar, University of Granada, Spain) Section 3: Audiences Section Introduction (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London, UK & Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK)1. The opera virgins project: operatic event cinema as new cultural experience (Joseph Attard, King's College London, UK) 2. Against Participation: Cinephilia, Nostalgia, and the Pleasures of Attending an 'Alternative' Cinema Space (Richard McCulloch, Regents University, UK & Virginia Crisp Coventry University, UK)3. Funfear Attractions: the playful affects of carefully managed terror in immersive 28 days later live experiences (Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK)4. Living cinema memories: Restaging the past at the pictures (Matthew Jones, De Montfort University, UK) Section 4: Creative & Artistic PracticesSection Introduction (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London, UK & Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK)1. Pseudo Soundtracks: Reconsidering the Rescore (Philip Brophy, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) 2. The Aesthetics of Immersion in Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable (Josephine Machon, Middlesex University, UK) 3. Eating with your eyes: Edible Cinema and participatory synaesthesia (Brendan Wocke, University of Perpignan, France) 4. Hangmen Rehanged – A playful replay of the play (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London) AFTERWORD (Sarah Atkinson, King's College, London, UK & Helen W. Kennedy, University of Brighton, UK)