Screening in the streaming age
Screen Studies 2026: Making do - From Metropolis to Thunderbolt | Screening in the streaming age | [Draft of article for the 2026 Film Studies Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (SAAANZ) conference, 1 December 2026, University of Melbourne] The promise of cinema, 1896 (top) / 2026 (bottom). Screening in the streaming age - when too much is not enough! Michael Organ ....... Abstract : Film screening has come a long way from the days of the Edison Kinetoscope in the 1890s when a viewer had to manually turn a handle and look down a telescope-style tube, from silent to sound in the 1930s, black and white to colour, nitrate to celluloid, 16mm to 70mm Panavision, and from the projection era of the twentieth century on to non-physical, digital means of access such as television, optical media - video tape, laser disc, DVDs - and streaming in the new millennium, with the latter two largely removing the need to visit a cinema in order to exp...
