During the first fifty years of the American cinema, going to the movies was a risky process, fraught with a number of possible physical and moral dangers. Film fires were rampant, claiming many lives, as were movie theatre robberies, which became particularly common during the …
In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood stars in the 1…
The marketplace of attention -- Media users -- The media -- Media measures -- Audience formations -- Constructing the marketplace of attention -- Public attention in the marketplace of ideas.
Introduction: screen subjects -- Interface matters: screen-reliant installation art -- Body and screen: the architecture of screen spectatorship -- Installing time: spatialized time and exploratory duration -- Be here (and there) now: the spatial dynamics of spectatorship -- Wha…
"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.
"Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story about the emotional experiences of theatregoers in Renaissance England. Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Kyd and Heywood, the reader will discover what it felt like to be part of performances in Englis…
Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people's lives. Personal drives, group identity, decision-making and meaning-making strategies, memory, and leisure preferences, all enter into the visitor experience, which extends far …