'The Personalization of the Museum Visit' examines a fundamental shift in institutional behavior in museums located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Contending that art museums have moved toward a new paradigm of public engagement, it posits that modern museum visito…
'The Personalization of the Museum Visit' examines a fundamental shift in institutional behavior in museums located in the United States and the United Kingdom. Contending that art museums have moved toward a new paradigm of public engagement, it posits that modern museum visito…
Traces the history of spectatorship and gaze theory in film studies.
"Designed for classroom use, this anthology of influential articles from Spectator, the highly regarded film studies journal published by USC's School of Cinematic Arts, offers historical perspectives on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and media spectatorship"--Publisher…
"Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, as characterized by the cultivation of distance. In author Nicholas Ridout's formulation, this distance is pr…
Live cinema: cultures, economies, aesthetics
"The first collection to consolidate authoritative research into the burgeoning field of 'live cinema', the creation of live events around a particular film screening"...
Live cinema: cultures, economies, aesthetics
"The first collection to consolidate authoritative research into the burgeoning field of 'live cinema', the creation of live events around a particular film screening"...
In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward the creation of a cinema that escapes beyond the boundaries of the auditorium whereby film-screenings are augmented by synchronous live performance, site-specific locations, technological intervention, social media engagemen…
In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade wome…
Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media-from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films-to speak to local dreams and desires. In it, Lau…
