Two-day Conference
De Montfort University, Leicester
Saturday 10th – Sunday 11th July 2010

The conference, hosted by the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre in De Montfort University's Faculty of Humanities, will celebrate a century of cinema exhibition in the UK since the Cinematograph Act 1909, which was the first major legislation relating to moving pictures, came into force on 1 January 1910.

Proposals are invited on any aspect of cinema exhibition including: audiences, technologies, cinema design and building, programming, legislation and other aspects of the cinemagoing experience.

Please send abstracts (500 words) with short biography including contact details to Stuart Hanson(shanson@dmu.ac.uk) and Steve Chibnall (schib@dmu.ac.uk) by 23rd April 2010.