“The filmer had this janky camera with one of those clip-on fish eyes and was impossible to get hold of.”
“Sir Robert Filmer, who later served as the target of John Locke's First Treatise of Government, is a well-known proponent of this view, which he calls patriarchalism.”
“Filmer also wrote critiques of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Hugo Grotius and Aristotle.”
“Whether the memories have been turned into bizarre shrines, or forgotten and left to rot, you'd have to be totally uninterested in filmlore to find the place dull.”
“The schedule of start times is essential to the routinisation of filmgoing.”
“But then, if I were writing, I'd only be writing about the changing nature of filmgoing and film exhibition.”
“The context of this paper is filmgoing in Britain and the United States during the 1930s, when filmgoing was the dominant paid-for leisure activity in both countries.”