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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aveyard, Karina.

Contributor:

Moran, Albert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Motion pictures--Appreciation.

Motion picture audiences--History.

Motion picture audiences.

Motion picture industry.

Local Subjects:

Film criticism.

Motion pictures--Appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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, prensentations and consumption of film. This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the rapidly changing nature of modern cinema.

Contents:

Cover ; Half Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents; Foreword; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors; Introduction: New Perspectives on Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception ; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives ; Chapter 1: Cinema, Modernity and Audiences: Revisiting and Expanding the Debate; Chapter 2: What is a Cinema? Death, Closure and the Database; Chapter 3: A Poetics of Film-audience Reception? Barbara Deming Goes to the Movies; Chapter 4: The Porous Boundaries of Newsreel Memory Research

Chapter 5: Why are Children the Most Important Audience for Pornography in Australia?Part II: The Film Industry - Systems and Practices ; Chapter 6: Local Promotion of a 'Picture Personality': A Case Study of the Vitagraph Girl ; Chapter 7: 'Calamity Howling': The Advent of Television and Australian Cinema Exhibition; Chapter 8; A Nation of Film-goers: Audiences, Exhibition and Distribution in New Zealand; Chapter 9: The Critical Reception of Certified Copy: Original Art or Copy of a Rom-com?; Part III: Movie Theatres - From Picture Palace to the Multiplex

From Out-of-town to the Edge and Back to the Centre: Multiplexes in Britain from the 1990sPart IV: On the Margins ; Chapter 15: The Place of Rural Exhibition: Makeshift Cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland); Chapter 16: 'A Popcorn-free Zone': Distinctions in Independent Film Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand; Chapter 17: Getting to See Women's Cinema; Chapter 18: Shifting Fandoms of Film, Community and Family; Part V: Just Watching Movies? ; Chapter 19: Watching Popular Films in the Netherlands, 1934-36

Chapter 20: Contemporary Italian Film-goers and Their CriticsChapter 21: Imagining a 'Decent Crowd' at the Indian Multiplex; Chapter 22: The VHS Generation and their Movie Experiences; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78320-042-1

OCLC:

855504251