Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception / edited by Ian Christie.
"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...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2012.
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Table of 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.