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1. Introduction: Rural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context: Not Just a Slower Transition to Modernity (Daniela Treveri Gennari, Danielle Hipkins and Catherine O’Rawe) Part 1. Space, Place and Cinema-going Experiences 2. The Use of Geographical Categories in Cinema Studies: An Ontological Examination (Elisa Ravazzoli) 3. Kanda’s Grounds and the Ritual Experience of Rural Cinema in Narok, Kenya (Solomon Waliaula) 4. The Business of ‘Wholesome Entertainment’: The Mascioli Film Circuit of Northeastern Ontario (Jessica L. Whitehead) Part 2. Early Cinema, Itinerant Showmen and the Lure of Modernity 5. Spaces In-Between: The Railway and Early Cinema in Rural, Western Canada (Paul S. Moore) 6. Rurban Outfitters: Cinema and Rural Cultural Development in New Hampshire’s North Country, 1896-1917 (Jeffrey Klenotic) Part 3. Oral Histories and the Social Experience of Rural Cinema-going 7. Oral Memories of Cinema-going in Rural Italy of the 1950s (Danielle Hipkins, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O’Rawe, Silvia Dibeltulo and Sarah Culhane) 8. Belgian Film Culture Beyond the Big City: Cinema-going in the Provincial and Rural Periphery of Antwerp (Philippe Meers, Daniel Biltereyst) 9. The Social Experience of Going to the Movies in the 1930s-1960s in a Small Texas Border Town: Movie-going Habits and Memories of Films in Laredo, Texas (José Carlos Lozano, Philippe Meers, Daniel Biltereyst) 10. The Social Geography of ‘Going Out’: Teenagers and Community Cinema in Rural Australia (Karina Aveyard) Part 4. Shaping Cinema Audiences for Educational and Ideological Purposes 11. Projecting Modernity: Sol Plaatje’s Touring Cinema Exhibition in 1920s South Africa (Jacqueline Maingard) 12. Controlling Rural Cinema-going by Appropriating a Film Format: The Catholic Adventure of “Pathé-Rural” in Interwar France (Mélisande Leventopoulos) 13. UNESCO, Mobile Cinema and Rural Audiences: Exhibition Histories and Instrumental Ideologies of the 1940s (Ian Goode) 14. Reconsidering Post-Revolutionary Cultural Change: Rural Film Projection Teams in Shaanxi Province, 1949-1956 (Matthew Johnson) 15. Silence Under the Linden Tree: Rural Cinema-going in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s (Lucie Česálková) Part 5. Film Programming Strategies, Exhibition Practices, and Reception 16. Language and Cultural Nearness: Film Programming Strategies and Audience Preferences in Big Cities and Small Towns in the Netherlands 1934-1936 (Clara Pafort-Overduin) 17. Post-war Thai Cinema: Audiences and Film Style in a Divided Nation (Mary J. Ainslie) 18. Youth, Leisure and Modernity in the film One Summer of Happiness (1951): Exploring the Space of Rural Film Exhibition in Swedish Post-war Cinema (Åsa Jernudd) 19. Cine Centímetro: Memory and Cinema-going Practices in an MGM Replica Cinema in the Rio de Janeiro Countryside (Talitha Ferraz)