Screen-Shifting
Consumption, 'Riskless Risks' and the Changing Geographies of Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Hubbard (0000-0001-7504-5471, Loughborough University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1239-1258 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a3522 |
| OpenAlex | W2111959927 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 31 |
It is widely acknowledged that the geography of film exhibition in the urban West has changed significantly as 'traditional' town centre and suburban cinemas have been supplemented, and in some cases supplanted, by multiplex cinemas in out-of-town locations. In this paper I explore the reasons for this shift, using case-study data from Leicester (United Kingdom) to explore the forms of sociality played out in different sites of film exhibition. These data suggest that multiplex cinemas are frequented predominantly by consumer groups seeking an 'exopolitan' leisure experience that is predictable and riskless. In contrast, it appears there are many who continue to frequent city-centre and suburban cinemas because they prefer the less predictable ambience of 'urban' leisure. The coexistence of these different forms of cinemagoing is discussed in relation to unfolding debates about the postmodern city-a city that accommodates consumers' predilection for 'riskless risks' by holding different forms of sociality apart
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Economic geography · Exhibition · Geography · Literature · Media studies · Movie theater · Postmodernism · Sociality · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Night-time city culture
Imagining Geographies of films
Remember the Alamo
Socio-economic effects on increased cinema attendance
Developing Leisure and Cultural Attractions in the Regional City Centre
Inequalities in Regional Film Exhibition
Exotica Africana
Drunk and Disorderly
A Room With A View? Looking Outwards From Late Medieval Harewood
The Sustainable Suburban High Street
Selling city centre flats in uncertain times
A good night out? Multiplex cinemas as sites of embodied leisure
What the Country Tells Us
Disaggregating the Space-Time Layers of City-Centre Activities and Their Users
Afterimages
The Lure of the Multiplex? The Interplay of Time, Distance, and Cinema Attendance
Postmodernity and Its Discontents
Spectacular Realities
Window Shopping
Geographies of Exclusion
Lost in Space
Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life
Shopping, Place and Identity
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
Going to the movies
City-centre Revitalisation
Public and Private Consumption and the City
The Binary City
Theorising Urban Playscapes
Are We Having Fun Yet? Leisure and Consumption in the Post‐apartheid City
Reading the Shopping Mall City
Family Fantasies and Community Space
Postmodern Urbanism
Consuming life
Consumption and the Postmodern City
Urban Lifestyles
Modernity, Urbanism, and Modern Consumption
Dark Panopticon. Or, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Automobility-A Social Problem and Theoretical Concept
The Banality of Interdiction
Multiple Meanings
Consumption, exclusion and emotion
Monsters in Metal Cocoons
The McDonaldization Thesis
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |