Audiences : defining and researching screen entertainment reception / edited by Ian Christie

Englisch

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012

1 Online-Ressource (332 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and indexes

Print version: Audiences. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012

90-8964-362-1

90-485-1505-X : electronic book

978-90-8964-362-9

978-90-485-1505-9 : electronic book

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-8964-362-9 (Druckausgabe)

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

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

pt. 3. Once and future audiences. Crossing out the audience / Martin Barker ; The cinema spectator: a special memory

*Motion picture audiences ; Motion picture audiences

*PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology ; PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; General ; Motion picture audiences ; The arts ; Film, TV and radio ; Films, cinema ; Film theory and criticism

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: PN1995.9.A8

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 302.2343;

bisacsh: PER004000

bisacsh: PSY 031000

bisacsh: PER004000

bisacsh: PSY 031000

"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habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations.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

 

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