Watching Films : New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception.

By:

Moran, Albert

Contributor(s):

Aveyard, Karina

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bristol. Intellect, Limited 2013.Description: 288 pISBN:

9781841505114
1841505110

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.4 AVE

Abstract: With a focus on the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence how we watch and think about movies, this book centres its investigations on four areas of inquiry: Who watches films? Under what circumstances? What consequences and affects follow? And what do these acts of consumption mean?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	791.4 AVE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100560284

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Whether we stream them on our laptops, enjoy them in theaters, or slide them into DVD players to watch on our TVs, movies are part of what it means to be socially connected in the twenty-first century. Despite its significant role in our lives, the act of watching films remains an area of social activity that is little studied, and thus, little understood. In Watching Films , an international cast of contributors correct this problem with a comprehensive investigation of movie going, cinema exhibition, and film reception around the world. With a focus on the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence how we watch and think about movies, this volume centers its investigations on four areas of inquiry: Who watches films? Under what circumstances? What consequences and affects follow? And what do these acts of consumption mean? Responding to these questions, the contributors provide both historical perspective and fresh insights about the ways in which new viewing arrangements and technologies influence how films get watched everywhere from Canada to China to Ireland. A long-overdue consideration of an important topic, Watching Films provides an engrossing overview of how we do just that in our homes and across the globe.

With a focus on the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence how we watch and think about movies, this book centres its investigations on four areas of inquiry: Who watches films? Under what circumstances? What consequences and affects follow? And what do these acts of consumption mean?

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Foreword (p. xi)
Figures and Tables (p. xiii)
Acknowledgements (p. xv)
About the Contributors (p. xvii)
Introduction: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception (p. 1)
Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives (p. 15)
Chapter 1 Cinema, Modernity and Audiences: Revisiting and Expanding the Debate (p. 17)
Chapter 2 What is a Cinema? Death, Closure and the Database (p. 33)
Chapter 3 A Poetics of Film-audience Reception? Barbara Deming Goes to the Movies (p. 53)
Chapter 4 The Porous Boundaries of Newsreel Memory Research (p. 69)
Chapter 5 Why are Children the Most Important Audience for Pornography in Australia? (p. 87)
Part II The Film Industry - Systems and Practices (p. 101)
Chapter 6 Local Promotion of a 'Picture Personality': A Case Study of the Vitagraph Girl (p. 103)
Chapter 7 'Calamity Howling': The Advent of Television and Australian Cinema Exhibition (p. 121)
Chapter 8 A Nation of Film-goers: Audiences, Exhibition and Distribution in New Zealand (p. 141)
Chapter 9 The Critical Reception of Certified Copy: Original Art or Copy of a Rom-com? (p. 157)
Part III Movie Theatres - From Picture Palace to the Multiplex (p. 169)
Chapter 10 Movie-going in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship and Sunday Showings (p. 171)
Chapter 11 From Mom-and-Pop to Paramount-Publix: Selling the Community on the Benefits of National Theatre Chains (p. 189)
Chapter 12 A Progressive City and Its Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance (p. 209)
Chapter 13 'They Don't Need Me in Heaven ... There are No Cinemas There, Ye Know': Cinema Culture in Antwerp (Belgium) and the Empire of Georges Heylen, 1945-75 (p. 223)
Chapter 14 From Out-of-town to the Edge and Back to the Centre: Multiplexes in Britain from the 1990s (p. 245)
Part IV On the Margins (p. 261)
Chapter 15 The Place of Rural Exhibition: Makeshift Cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland) (p. 263)
Chapter 16 'A Popcorn-free Zone': Distinctions in Independent Film Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand (p. 279)
Chapter 17 Getting to See Women's Cinema (p. 295)
Chapter 18 Shifting Fandoms of Film, Community and Family (p. 315)
Part V Just Watching Movies? (p. 329)
Chapter 19 Watching Popular Films in the Netherlands, 1934-36 (p. 331)
Chapter 20 Contemporary Italian Film-goers and Their Critics (p. 351)
Chapter 21 Imagining a 'Decent Crowd' at the Indian Multiplex (p. 369)
Chapter 22 The VHS Generation and their Movie Experiences (p. 387)
Index (p. 403)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Karina Aveyard is a Lecturer in the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia.
Albert Moran is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University. His other recent title for Intellect is TV Format Mogul: Reg Grundy's Transnational Career (2013).