Heritage film audiences : period films and contemporary audiences in the UK / Claire Monk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monk, Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Audiences--Great Britain.

Audiences.

Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a study of the contemporary audiences for quality period films, and their responses to these films, with reference to the critical debate which constructs many of these films as 'heritage films'.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Appendices; Acknowledgements; Introduction; chapter 1 The Heritage Film Debate: From Textual Critique to Audience; chapter 2 The Heritage Audience Survey: Methodology and Issues; chapter 3 Demographics and Identities: A Portrait of the Survey Respondents; chapter 4 Respondents' Film Viewing Habit(u)s; chapter 5 Patterns of Film Taste: Period and Non-Period Films; chapter 6 Audience Pleasures, Attitudes and Perspectives 1: Visual Pleasure and 'Authenticity', Engagement and Escape

chapter 7 Audience Pleasures, Attitudes and Perspectives 2: 'Quality', Literary Pleasures, Adaptation and Cultural Valuechapter 8 Conclusions: Period Film Audiences, the Heritage Film Debate and Audience Studies; Appendices; Selective Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5123-3

1-283-22180-2

9786613221803

0-7486-4704-X

OCLC:

745866883