"Spectatorship cuts a path through the dense undergrowth of the debate on spectatorship. Film, like all visual culture, offers the possibility, and the pleasure, of seeing things we would not normally be able to see: cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday and turns the spectac…
"Spectatorship cuts a path through the dense undergrowth of the debate on spectatorship. Film, like all visual culture, offers the possibility, and the pleasure, of seeing things we would not normally be able to see: cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday and turns the spectac…
"A study of films set in four iconic American landscapes ... Indian Country, the South, the inner city, and the suburbs ... reveals the way that popular film participates in a nationwide discussion about the role of multiculturalism in the post civil rights era. Cinematic sensat…
"Explores a variety of theological and methodological approaches to film spectatorship through a dialogue of international contributions"--
"A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience. How has cinema transformed our senses, and how does it continue to do so? Positing film as a stage in the long coevolution of human c…
Introduction : material mediations -- Collecting and recollecting : Battlestar Galactica through video's varied technologies of memory -- The commercial economy of film history : or, looking for Looking for Mr. Goodbar -- "Let's movie" : how TCM made a lifestyle of classic film …
"The digital revolution in contemporary movie-making has engendered a wave of cinephilia among those nostalgic for the culture of cinema and the medium of film. It has also spawned growing concerns about their future. The concept of cinephilia, Keller argues, is hardly new as te…
Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the str…
"Media screens--film, video, and computer screens--have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens addresses …
Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums.