Throughout the book it is addressed that the field of digital filmmaking and especially mobile and smartphone filmmaking as a unique form of creative practice is fast-developing, with new emerging techniques, forms and methods. The author establishes mobile and smartphone filmmaking as a unique film form and introduces his filmmaking modes as a theoretical approach for analysis. The positioning of smartphone filmmaking in a wider framework is challenging in its own right. [Extracted from the article]
MOTION picture theaters, EASTER Rising, Ireland, 1916, MIDDLE class, WAR films
Abstract
This article shows how 1916 in Dublin was the year in which cinemas began to successfully attract and keep a middle-class audience. Cinemas used a number of different tactics to entice the middle class including: an enhancement of their musical provision, a presentation of films about World War One in a manner that included presenting the films with music, song and poetry, often performed by servicemen, and finally, a focus on the comforts the cinema building had to offer, which in some cases included refurbishments. The attempt to attract middle-class patrons was instigated by the need to diversify as more and more cinemas were reaching for a pool of the same number of working-class patrons. The article draws extensively upon The Irish Times of 1916 predominately as that paper was the organ of the middle and upper class of the era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]