Methods of Historical Film Audience Research

Organizing Institutions
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Center for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF)
Institute of Media Culture and Theater, University of Cologne

Concept and Organization
PD Dr. hab. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (Warsaw)
Prof. Dr. Joseph Garncarz (Cologne)
Dr. Christoph Classen (Potsdam)

Programme

Thursday, 25 April 2019

14:30–15:00
Welcome & Introduction
Miloš Řezník (Warsaw),
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (Warsaw),
Joseph Garncarz (Cologne),
Christoph Classen (Potsdam)

I. Sources
Chair: Joseph Garncarz

15:00–16:45
(Un)published Documents
Ewa Ciszewska (Łódź)
Can Press Sources Serve as a Repository for Film Reception Studies? Questions of Paralel Research on Film Press in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1970

Konrad Klejsa (Łódź)
Crowds, Applause and State Militia: Archive Reports on Cinema Audiences in People’s Republic of Poland, 1945–1955

16:45–17:00 | Coffee break

17:00–18:45
Quantitative Historical Audience Data
John Sedgwick (Oxford)
A Method for Measuring Differences in Film Taste: Italy in the 1950s

Christoph Hilgert (Munich)
What Can We Know about Broadcasting Audiences in the 1950s and 1960s? Dealing with the Challenges of Re-analyzing Quantitative Historical Audience Research

19:15 | Reception

Friday, 26 April 2019

II. Approaching Audiences
Chair: Christoph Classen

9:30–11:15
Cinema-goers’ Memories
Daniela Treveri-Gennari (Oxford)
Inside and Outside the Cinema: Memories in Context

Sabine Moller (Berlin)
Watching History in Film: Interviews with Spectators

11:15–11:30 | Coffee break

11:30–13:15
The Composition of the Audience
Peter Krämer (Norwich)
American Graffiti (1973) and the Baby Boom Audience in the United States

Clara Pafort-Overduin (Utrecht)
Understanding Film Popularity: a Multidimensional Approach

13:15–14:15 | Lunch

III. Spaces
Chair: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

14:15–16:00
Cinema and Beyond
Judith Thissen (Utrecht)
Towards a Non-cinema Centric Approach to Cinema History

Jacqueline Maingard (Bristol)
Historical Film Audiences in Africa: a Research Matrix

16:00–16:15 | Coffee break

16:15–18:00
Geographical Spaces, Abrupt Changes and Changing Tastes
Karina Pryt (Frankfurt am Main)
Cinema Audiences in Warsaw from 1908 to 1939

Pavel Skopal (Brno)
Occupation, Abrupt Changes, and Taste Distinctions in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Implications of Researching on Movies/Theatres´ Boycott

18:30 | Dinner