Luke Mckernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3064807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Mckernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckernan |
| SIGNATURE | MCKERNAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Library |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6285-295X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Picturegoers
Long Walk to Freedom
Stories
Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priorit…
Rituals and Records
The title of Allen Guttmann's landmark study of sports history, From Ritual to Record , captures the way cinematic treatments of the Olympic Games, Europe's most resonant sporting invention, developed in the early twentieth century. Projected film and the modern Olympic Games began in the same year, 1896, and the way the two phenomena have grown together demonstrates a progression from formality and ritual to an ever-increasing emphasis on indivi…
XXIII Iamhist Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales, July 8–11, 2009
A fury for seeing
This article analyses an anonymous article from The Times in 1913 that considers the phenomenon of metropolitan cinema‐going. Cinemas had first appeared in London in 1906, and had enjoyed an explosion in numbers since 1909. They were an inescapable presence on London’s streets, drawing in a vast new audience, and led to much social comment. The writer of The Times article sets out to explain what it is that is drawing so many people to the screen…
Blogging the silents
Weblogs, or blogs, are common across the Internet, but their value for communicating information on research needs to be better understood. This short describes describes the experience of setting up and operating The Bioscope, a blog on early and silent cinema, and covers other blogs on silent and pre‐cinema subjects. Keywords: Silent cinemaweblogs
XXII Iamhist Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18–21 July 2007
Who’s who of victorian cinema
www.victorian‐cinema.net In 1996, the British Film Institute published Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey. The book contained over 280 biographies of those who collectively could be
The supreme moment of the war”
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The supreme moment of the war”
Who’s who of victorian cinema
www.victorian‐cinema.net In 1996, the British Film Institute published Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey. The book contained over 280 biographies of those who collectively could be
A fury for seeing
This article analyses an anonymous article from The Times in 1913 that considers the phenomenon of metropolitan cinema‐going. Cinemas had first appeared in London in 1906, and had enjoyed an explosion in numbers since 1909. They were an inescapable presence on London’s streets, drawing in a vast new audience, and led to much social comment. The writer of The Times article sets out to explain what it is that is drawing so many people to the screen…
Blogging the silents
Weblogs, or blogs, are common across the Internet, but their value for communicating information on research needs to be better understood. This short describes describes the experience of setting up and operating The Bioscope, a blog on early and silent cinema, and covers other blogs on silent and pre‐cinema subjects. Keywords: Silent cinemaweblogs
XXII Iamhist Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 18–21 July 2007
XXIII Iamhist Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales, July 8–11, 2009
Rituals and Records
The title of Allen Guttmann's landmark study of sports history, From Ritual to Record , captures the way cinematic treatments of the Olympic Games, Europe's most resonant sporting invention, developed in the early twentieth century. Projected film and the modern Olympic Games began in the same year, 1896, and the way the two phenomena have grown together demonstrates a progression from formality and ritual to an ever-increasing emphasis on indivi…
Stories
Stories are perceived as central to modern life. Not only in narrative entertainment media, such as television, cinema, theater, but also in social media. Telling/having "a story" is widely deemed essential, in business as well as in social life. Does this mark an intensification of what has always been part of human cultures; or has the realm of "story" expanded to dominate twenty-first century discourse? Addressing stories is an obvious priorit…
Picturegoers
Long Walk to Freedom
History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)