ISBN:
9781783200429
,
1783200421
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxi, 418 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Aveyard, Karina Watching Films : New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception
DDC:
302.2343
Keywords:
Motion picture industry History
;
Motion picture audiences
;
Motion picture industry History
;
Motion picture audiences
;
Motion picture industry History
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
Media Studies
;
Motion picture audiences
;
Motion picture industry
;
Kino
;
Publikum
;
Filmpublik
;
Filmdistribution
;
Filmbranschen
;
Filmteori
;
Publik
;
Media Studies
;
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
;
Film
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, prensentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema
Abstract:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Introduction: New Perspectives on Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1: Cinema, Modernity and Audiences: Revisiting and Expanding the Debate; Chapter 2: What is a Cinema? Death, Closure and the Database; Chapter 3: A Poetics of Film-audience Reception? Barbara Deming Goes to the Movies; Chapter 4: The Porous Boundaries of Newsreel Memory Research
Abstract:
Chapter 5: Why are Children the Most Important Audience for Pornography in Australia?Part II: The Film Industry -- Systems and Practices; Chapter 6: Local Promotion of a 'Picture Personality': A Case Study of the Vitagraph Girl; Chapter 7: 'Calamity Howling': The Advent of Television and Australian Cinema Exhibition; Chapter 8; A Nation of Film-goers: Audiences, Exhibition and Distribution in New Zealand; Chapter 9: The Critical Reception of Certified Copy: Original Art or Copy of a Rom-com?; Part III: Movie Theatres -- From Picture Palace to the Multiplex
Abstract:
Chapter 10: Movie-going in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship and Sunday ShowingsChapter 11: From Mom-and-Pop to Paramount-Publix: Selling the Community on the Benefits of National Theatre Chains; Chapter 12: A Progressive City and Its Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance; Chapter 13: 'They Don't Need Me in Heaven ... There are No Cinemas There, Ye Know': Cinema Culture in Antwerp (Belgium) and the Empire of Georges Heylen, 1945-75; Chapter 14
Abstract:
Chapter 20: Contemporary Italian Film-goers and Their CriticsChapter 21: Imagining a 'Decent Crowd' at the Indian Multiplex; Chapter 22: The VHS Generation and their Movie Experiences; Index; Back Cover
Abstract:
From Out-of-town to the Edge and Back to the Centre: Multiplexes in Britain from the 1990sPart IV: On the Margins; Chapter 15: The Place of Rural Exhibition: Makeshift Cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland); Chapter 16: 'A Popcorn-free Zone': Distinctions in Independent Film Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand; Chapter 17: Getting to See Women's Cinema; Chapter 18: Shifting Fandoms of Film, Community and Family; Part V: Just Watching Movies?; Chapter 19: Watching Popular Films in the Netherlands, 1934-36
Note:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. - Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 1, 2014)
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