Watching films : new perspectives on movie-going, exhibition and reception / edited by Karina Aveyard and Albert Moran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aveyard, Karina.

Moran, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture audiences.

Motion picture industry--History.

Motion picture industry.

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2013.

Summary:

Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception provides new and compelling insights into the social, cultural and economic factors that influence the circulation, presentation and consumption of film. Drawing on case studies from across Europe, the United States and Australasia, this collection explores a diverse range of viewing contexts from the historic through to the contemporary. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema. Watching Films shows why the new cinema history with its focus on audiences, movie-going, exhibition and reception is one of the most exciting recent developments in cinema studies. This book provides powerful tools for examining the circulation, presentation and consumption of film. Professor Tom O'Regan, University of Queensland, This well-chosen collection of recent work in what has been called "new cinema history" demonstrates the value of an expanded understanding of cinema studies that includes not only films but also experience, place, memories, and discourses. Drawing from a wide range of historical periods, national contexts, and forms of cinema, this book illuminates the experience of cinema and suggests new and important connections with other fields. Professor Robert C. Allen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives 15

Chapter 1 Cinema, Modernity and Audiences: Revisiting and Expanding the Debate / Daniel Biltereyst Biltereyst, Daniel 17

Chapter 2 What is a Cinema? Death, Closure and the Database / Deb Verhoeven Verhoeven, Deb 33

Chapter 3 A Poetics of Film-audience Reception? Barbara Deming Goes to the Movies / Albert Moran Moran, Albert 53

Chapter 4 The Porous Boundaries of Newsreel Memory Research / Louise Anderson Anderson, Louise 69

Chapter 5 Why are Children the Most Important Audience for Pornography in Australia? / Alan McKee McKee, Alan 87

Part II The Film Industry - Systems and Practices 101

Chapter 6 Local Promotion of a 'Picture Personality': A Case Study of the Vitagraph Girl / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn 103

Chapter 7 'Calamity Howling': The Advent of Television and Australian Cinema Exhibition / Mike Walsh Walsh, Mike 121

Chapter 8 A Nation of Film-goers: Audiences, Exhibition and Distribution in New Zealand / Geoff Lealand Lealand, Geoff 141

Chapter 9 The Critical Reception of Certified Copy: Original Art or Copy of a Rom-com? / Eylem Akatav Akatav, Eylem 157

Part III Movie Theatres - From Picture Palace to the Multiplex 169

Chapter 10 Movie-going in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship and Sunday Showings / Douglas Gomery Gomery, Douglas 171

Chapter 11 From Mom-and-Pop to Paramount-Publix: Selling the Community on the Benefits of National Theatre Chains / Jeffrey Klenotic Klenotic, Jeffrey 189

Chapter 12 A Progressive City and Its Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance / Mark Jancovich Jancovich, Mark, Lucy Faire Faire, Lucy, Sarah Stubbings Stubbings, Sarah 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 / Kathleen Lotze Lotze, Kathleen, Philippe Meers Meers, Philippe 223

Chapter 14 From Out-of-town to the Edge and Back to the Centre: Multiplexes in Britain from the 1990s / Stuart Hanson Hanson, Stuart 245

Part IV On the Margins 261

Chapter 15 The Place of Rural Exhibition: Makeshift Cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland) / Ian Goode Goode, Ian 263

Chapter 16 'A Popcorn-free Zone': Distinctions in Independent Film Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand / Ian Huffer Huffer, Ian 279

Chapter 17 Getting to See Women's Cinema / Julia Knight Knight, Julia 295

Chapter 18 Shifting Fandoms of Film, Community and Family / Tom Phillips Phillips, Tom 315

Part V Just Watching Movies? 329

Chapter 19 Watching Popular Films in the Netherlands, 1934-36 / Clara Pafort-Overduin Pafort-Overduin, Clara 331

Chapter 20 Contemporary Italian Film-goers and Their Critics / Alan O'Leary O'Leary, Alan, Catherine O'Rawe O'Rawe, Catherine 351

Chapter 21 Imagining a 'Decent Crowd' at the Indian Multiplex / Adrian Mabbott Athique Athique, Adrian Mabbott 369

Chapter 22 The VHS Generation and their Movie Experiences / Janna Jones Jones, Janna 387.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1841505110

9781841505114

OCLC:

854595091

Publisher Number:

99955012125