1st Edition
Audiences Defining and Researching Screen Entertainment Reception
Edited By Ian Christie
Copyright 2013
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Editorial, Acknowledgments, Introduction: In Search of Audiences, Part I Reassessing Historic Audiences, “At the Picture Palace”: The British Cinema Audience, 1895-1920, The Gentleman in the Stalls: Georges Méliès and Spectatorship in Early Cinema, Beyond the Nickelodeon: Cinema going, Everyday Life and Identity Politics, Cinema in the Colonial City: Early Film Audiences in Calcutta, Locating Early Non-Theatrical Audiences, Understanding Audience Behavior Through Statistical Evidence: London and Amsterdam in the Mid-1930s, PART II New Frontiers in Audience Research, The Aesthetics and Viewing Regimes of Cinema and Television, and Their Dialectics, Tapping into Our Tribal Heritage: The Lord of the Rings and Brain Evolution, Cinephilia in the Digital Age, Spectator, Film and the Mobile Phone, Exploring Inner Worlds: Where Cognitive Psychology May Take Us, PART III Once and Future Audiences, Crossing Out the Audience, The Cinema Spectator: A Special Memory, Operatic Cinematics: A New View from the Stalls, What Do We Really Know About Film Audiences? Notes, General Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, Index of Names, Index of Film Titles, Index of Subjects.
Biography
Ian Christie is a film historian and curator, currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a visiting professor and fellow at universities in Chicago, Tampa, Stockholm, Canberra, Paris and Olomouc, and at Gresham College in London 2017-21, as well as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University in 2006. He has written and edited books on Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam; and contributed to many exhibitions
