This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media. Details the study of audiences and how it is changing in relation to digital media Recognizes and appreciates valuable traditional approaches and ide…
Verzameling artikelen, recensies en lezingen van de auteur over de verschuivingen in de filmwereld, waarbij de cinema langzaam verdwijnt en de cinefilie welig tiert.
In the first section three theoretical models of spectatorship are examined: the perceptual, the institutional and the historical. The second section focuses on case studies concentrating on textual analysis, genre, 'star-gazing' and finally the audience itself.
Judith Mayne examines and assesses the major theories of spectatorship as they have developed over the last 15 years. She aims to explore how the analysis of a genuine dialogue between history and theory can lead to an understanding of the ways in which cinema engages its viewer…
Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction be…
"Reality TV restores a crucial, and often absent, element to the critical debate about reality television: the voices of people who watch reality programmes." "The book draws on quantitative and qualitative audience research to understand how viewers categorise the reality genre…
Annette Hill discusses a wide range of reality television shows, drawing on research among reality TV viewers to consider how different audience groups think about factual television, and whether they consider such programmes to be providing entertainment or information.
Real TV examines the dual themes of ethics and public interest in relation to the genre of popular factually entertainment.
The foremost philosopher of art argues for a new politics of looking. The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent an…
Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expr…
Science Fiction Audiences considers the continuing popularity of two television 'institutions' of our time through an examination of their followersand fans.
Science Fiction Audiences considers the continuing popularity of two television 'institutions' of our time through an examination of their followers and fans.
Science Fiction Audiences considers the continuing popularity of two television 'institutions' of our time through an examination of their followers and fans.
Bibliografie : p. 349-377. - Met reg. Description of the evolution between 1750 and 1850 from talking audience to listening audience at concerts. Each section opens with a chapter recreating the physical and psychological atmosphere of the hall from the spectator's point of view.
