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Going digital : the experience of the transition to digital projection in UK cinemas
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Wallace, Richard James (2018) Going digital : the experience of the transition to digital projection in UK cinemas. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15 (1). pp. 6-26. doi:10.3366/jbctv.2018.0399 ISSN 1743-4521.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0399
Abstract
This article addresses the digital transformation in UK cinemas between 2000 and 2014, as viewed by cinema projectionists. During this period digital projectors replaced mechanical 35mm film projectors throughout UK cinemas. This resulted in many redundancies and a fundamental change in the way films are shown. This article draws on interview material with a number of current and former cinema projectionists (including a number who were made redundant and some members of the trade union BECTU) to provide an account of this period of change as it was experienced by those most affected by it. The ways in which the speed of the change was perceived are examined in detail. The article also considers how narratives of personal and professional change and redundancy are mediated through the attachment to technology and the experience of technological change. The respondents' descriptions of the arrival of the digital projectors and the focus on ‘the final show’ are common themes around which such narratives are constructed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TR Photography | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Digital cinematography -- History -- Great Britain -- 21st century, Motion picture industry -- Employees -- Attitudes -- Great Britain -- 21st century | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of British Cinema and Television | ||||||||
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1743-4521 | ||||||||
Official Date: | January 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 15 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 6-26 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.3366/jbctv.2018.0399 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 January 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 January 2018 | ||||||||
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