Cinema and spectatorship

Cinema and spectatorship

by Mayne, Judith

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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 between ""subjects"" and ""viewers"" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship. In the book's first section Mayne examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the perceptual, the institutional and the histori…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Cinema and spectatorship / Judith Mayne.

Summary

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 between ""subjects"" and ""viewers"" is in fact central to the study of spectatorship. In the book's first section Mayne examines three theoretical models of spectatorship: the perceptual, the institutional and the historical, while the second section focuses on case studies which crystallize many of the issue

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (ix, 187 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1134966881, 9781134966882, 128032824X, 9781280328244, 9780203133880, 0203133889
  • oclc:ocn646717779
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.A8
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/015

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SUBJECT OF SPECTATORSHIP; SPECTATORSHIP AS INSTITUTION; SPECTATORSHIP RECONSIDERED; PARADOXES OF SPECTATORSHIP; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS AND PORTRAITS OF SPECTATORSHIP; STAR-GAZING; WHITE SPECTATORSHIP AND GENRE-MIXING; THE CRITICAL AUDIENCE; Works cited; Index

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Subjects

Cinéma -- Publics Motion picture audiences StageScripts

Writers

Mayne, Judith

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