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Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception

Title
Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception / edited by Ian Christie.
Publication
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors
Christie, Ian, 1945-
Description
332 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website.
Series Statement
The key debates ; 3
Uniform Title
Key debates ; 3.
Alternative Title
Defining and researching screen entertainment reception
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and indexes.
Contents
Introduction: in search of audiences / Ian Christie -- pt. 1. Reassessing historic audiences. "At the picture palace": the British cinema audience, 1895-1920 / Nicholas Hiley ; The gentleman in the stalls: Georges Melies and spectatorship in early cinema / Frank Kessler ; Beyond the nickelodeon: cinema going, everyday life and identity politics / Judith Thissen ; Cinema in the colonial city: early film audiences in Calcutta / Ranita Chatterjee ; Locating early non-theatrical audiences / Gregory A Waller ; Understanding audience behavior through statistical evidence: London and Amsterdam in the mid-1930s / John Sedgwick and Clara Pafort-Overduin -- pt. 2. New frontiers in audience research. The aesthetics and viewing regimes of cinema and television, and their dialectics / Annie van den Oever ; Tapping into our tribal heritage: The lord of the rings and brain evolution / Torben Grodal ; Cinephilia in the digital age / Laurent Jullier and Jean-Marc Leveratto ; Spectator, film and the mobile phone / Roger Odin ; Exploring inner worlds: where cognitive psychology may take us / a dialogue between Tim J. Smith and Ian Christie -- pt. 3. Once and future audiences. Crossing out the audience / Martin Barker ; The cinema spectator: a special memory / Raymond Bellour ; Operatic cinematics: a new view from the stalls / Kay Armatiage ; What do we really know about film audiences? / Ian Christie.
Call Number
MFL 13-4376
ISBN
  • 9789089643629
  • 9089643621
OCLC
788268454
Title
Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception / edited by Ian Christie.
Imprint
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Series
The key debates ; 3
Key debates ; 3.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-298) and indexes.
Added Author
Christie, Ian, 1945-
Research Call Number
MFL 13-4376
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