Making sense of cinema : empirical studies into film spectators and spectatorship / edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, Christopher J., editor.

Reinhard, CarrieLynn D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture audiences--Research--Methodology.

Motion picture audiences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Explores a variety of theological and methodological approaches to film spectatorship through a dialogue of international contributions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Empirical Approaches to Film Spectators and Spectatorship

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Dominican University, USA) and Christopher J. Olson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)Chapter 2: Spectatorship in Public Space: The Moving Image in Public Art

Annie Dell'Aria (Graduate Center CUNY, USA)Chapter 3: The Festival Collective: Cult Audiences and Asian Extreme Cinema

Jessica Hughes (University of Queensland, Australia)Chapter 4: Transnational Preoccupations: Representations of Aging in Spanish and French Queer

Cinemas and their Reception

Darren Waldron (The University of Manchester, UK)Chapter 5: Preferred Readings, Subject Positions and Dissociative Appropriations: Group Discussions

Following and Challenging the Tradition of Cultural Studies

Alexander Geimer (University of Hamburg, Germany)Chapter 6: "Legolas - He's Cool ... and He's Hot!": The Meanings and Implications of Audience

Attachments to Fictional Characters

Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University, UK)Chapter 7: In Search of the Urban Child Spectator in the Late Silent Era

Amanda Fleming (Indiana University, USA)Chapter 8: Seeing, Sensing Sound: Eye Tracking Soundscapes in Saving Private Ryan and Monsters

Inc.

Sean Redmond (Deakin University, Australia), Sarah Pink (RMIT University, Australia), Jane Stadler (RMIT University, Australia), Jenny Robinson (RMIT University, Australia), Andrea Rassell (RMIT University, Australia) and Darrin Verhagen (RMIT University, Australia)Chapter 9: Seeing Animated Worlds: Eye Tracking and the Spectator's Experience of Narrative

Craig Batty (RMIT University, Australia), Jodi Sita (Australian Catholic University, Australia), Adrian Dyer (RMIT University, Australia), and Claire Perkins (Monash University, Australia) Chapter 10: The Effect of Focalization and Attachment on Film Viewers' Responses to Film

Characters: Mixing Experimental Design with Qualitative Data Collection

Katalin Bálint (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) & András Bálint Kovács (University of ELTE, Hungary)Chapter 11: Making Sense of the American Superhero Film: Critical Engagement and Cinematic

Entanglement

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Dominican University, USA)Chapter 12: Applying a Model for Comprehension of Texts in the Comprehension of an Art Film

Sermin Ildirar (Istanbul University, Turkey)Chapter 13: Guiding Imagination by Narrative Contextualization: Exploring Cinematic Moving Images via Eye Tracking Experiments

Thorsten Kluss (Bremen University, Germany), Heinz-Peter Preusser (Bremen University, Germany), John Bateman (Bremen University, Germany), and Kerstin Schill (Bremen University, Germany)Chapter 14: Conclusion: Considerations for Future Directions

Christopher Olson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501302961

1501302965

9781501302978

1501302973

9781501302954

1501302957

OCLC:

1106557815