Joe Kember
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Kember |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Kember |
| SIGNATURE | KEMBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The lecture-brokers
The lantern lecturing business diversified in a number of ways in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the top end of one kind of cultural scale were the ‘popular lecturers’ – speakers who could be relied upon to fill venues wherever they travelled and who occupied a market increasingly dominated by discourses of celebrity. These lecturers tended to visit not only the usual run of lecturing institutes but also major town halls, theatres,…
Lantern mobilities
This is the author acepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
The magic lantern
No description available
Towards a non-discriminatory, inclusive use of language and images in our journal
Early popular visual culture, by its very definition, stems from a period in which different standards and norms were dominating public opinion – and some of this historical material is discriminat
Face Value
The return of facially disfigured men from the trenches of World War One occasioned a muted public reaction in the US. However, this article will show that burgeoning discourses concerning plastic surgery in the US also generated a significant reaction in the popular press, and that these were reflected, too, in several feature films dealing with facial surgery on disfigured veterans. Though several of these films depicted miraculous transformati…
Screen culture and the social question 1880–1914
Studying early and silent cinema
Charles Urban
A Kinematographic Journey through London 1907–8
Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786–1909
New work on cinema exhibition history
Explorations in new cinema history: approaches and case studies, edited by Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst and Phillipe Meers, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, xii + 335 pp., £60.00 (hardcover), IS
Jack London, Photographer
What is an exhibition culture
As regular readers of this journal will know very well, scholarly interest in exhibitions and exhibition practices has proliferated in the last ten years. Taken as a whole, such work has broadened
Productive intermediality and the expert audiences of magic theatre and early film
The central contention of this article is that from an institutional perspective, the important point about intermediality, and especially about the appearance of new media, is that it is almost always productive, generating discontinuities, ellipses, and anxieties that can be worked upon within media texts and creatively worked through by those who produce, exhibit, and consume them. Working through two case studies focused upon the idea of the …
Go thou and do likewise’
The Haunted Gallery
The Functions of Showmanship in Freak Show and Early Film
Concentrating upon popular conventions of showmanship in freak and film shows at the turn of the twentieth century, this article describes the apparently paradoxical strategy of bringing images and instances of otherness into institutional contexts where their function was primarily one of reassurance for audiences. Novelty, distraction and difference were certainly vital to the shows, but the demand for otherness was predicated upon deeper conti…
The magic lantern
No description available
Towards a non-discriminatory, inclusive use of language and images in our journal
Early popular visual culture, by its very definition, stems from a period in which different standards and norms were dominating public opinion – and some of this historical material is discriminat
The lecture-brokers
The lantern lecturing business diversified in a number of ways in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the top end of one kind of cultural scale were the ‘popular lecturers’ – speakers who could be relied upon to fill venues wherever they travelled and who occupied a market increasingly dominated by discourses of celebrity. These lecturers tended to visit not only the usual run of lecturing institutes but also major town halls, theatres,…
Screen culture and the social question 1880–1914
The Functions of Showmanship in Freak Show and Early Film
Concentrating upon popular conventions of showmanship in freak and film shows at the turn of the twentieth century, this article describes the apparently paradoxical strategy of bringing images and instances of otherness into institutional contexts where their function was primarily one of reassurance for audiences. Novelty, distraction and difference were certainly vital to the shows, but the demand for otherness was predicated upon deeper conti…
The Functions of Showmanship in Freak Show and Early Film
Concentrating upon popular conventions of showmanship in freak and film shows at the turn of the twentieth century, this article describes the apparently paradoxical strategy of bringing images and instances of otherness into institutional contexts where their function was primarily one of reassurance for audiences. Novelty, distraction and difference were certainly vital to the shows, but the demand for otherness was predicated upon deeper conti…
The Haunted Gallery
What is an exhibition culture
As regular readers of this journal will know very well, scholarly interest in exhibitions and exhibition practices has proliferated in the last ten years. Taken as a whole, such work has broadened
Productive intermediality and the expert audiences of magic theatre and early film
The central contention of this article is that from an institutional perspective, the important point about intermediality, and especially about the appearance of new media, is that it is almost always productive, generating discontinuities, ellipses, and anxieties that can be worked upon within media texts and creatively worked through by those who produce, exhibit, and consume them. Working through two case studies focused upon the idea of the …
Go thou and do likewise’
Jack London, Photographer
Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786–1909
New work on cinema exhibition history
Explorations in new cinema history: approaches and case studies, edited by Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst and Phillipe Meers, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, xii + 335 pp., £60.00 (hardcover), IS
A Kinematographic Journey through London 1907–8
Face Value
The return of facially disfigured men from the trenches of World War One occasioned a muted public reaction in the US. However, this article will show that burgeoning discourses concerning plastic surgery in the US also generated a significant reaction in the popular press, and that these were reflected, too, in several feature films dealing with facial surgery on disfigured veterans. Though several of these films depicted miraculous transformati…
Screen culture and the social question 1880–1914
Studying early and silent cinema
Charles Urban
Towards a non-discriminatory, inclusive use of language and images in our journal
Early popular visual culture, by its very definition, stems from a period in which different standards and norms were dominating public opinion – and some of this historical material is discriminat
The lecture-brokers
The lantern lecturing business diversified in a number of ways in the second half of the nineteenth century. At the top end of one kind of cultural scale were the ‘popular lecturers’ – speakers who could be relied upon to fill venues wherever they travelled and who occupied a market increasingly dominated by discourses of celebrity. These lecturers tended to visit not only the usual run of lecturing institutes but also major town halls, theatres,…
Lantern mobilities
This is the author acepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record
The magic lantern
No description available
Art (16 works) · Visual arts (16 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (8 works) · Art history (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Lantern (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)