Zimbabwe
Cinema exhibition and consumption in a shadow economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10494140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oswelled Ureke (0000-0002-0775-9699, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 359-374 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Screen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-9543 • E-ISSN: 1460-2474 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/screen/hjab032 |
| OpenAlex | W3210286157 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The relatively recentc emergence of more participatory and interactive models of screen media consumption has led some to the view that cinema-going is ‘dying’.1 Assertions of this ‘death’ are predicated on the existence of faster, more convenient ways of distributing and exhibiting films, such as video on demand (VOD), streaming, and other internet-based facilities. In developing economies there are yet more alternatives to theatrical exhibition, and not all of them are technology-driven. Film theatres, fundamentally, are no longer the only platforms with exclusive content; new dynamics of film consumption are emerging, some of which depart from early models that solicited the undivided attention of a spectator who ‘must watch the film individually and keep silent throughout the screening’.2 As Ramon Lobato observes, ‘While the nickelodeons, movie houses and picture palaces of yesteryear, and the multiplexes of today, are important sites of cultural consumption, formal theatrical exhibition is no
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |