Hollywood spectatorship : changing perceptions of cinema audiences / edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stokes, Melvyn, editor.

Maltby, Richard, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British Film Institute.

Motion picture audiences.

Motion picture audiences--Psychology.

Film & Media.

Local Subjects:

British Film Institute.

Film & Media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2001.

Summary:

This is an examination of the concepts of spectatorship in the light of historical accounts of audience reception. The book looks at how audiences have historically talked about Hollywood movies, and the ways in which 'word-of-mouth' responses have affected the reception of individual movies.

Contents:

Introduction : historical Hollywood spectatorship / Melvyn Stokes

Part 1. Talking pictures : the reception of Hollywood ; Writing the history of American film reception / Janet Staiger ; Genre and audience : genre classifications and cultural distinctions in the mediation of The silence of the lambs / Mark Jancovich ; Interpreting All about Eve : a study in historical reception / Martin Shingler ; The fall and rise of Fantasia / Amy M. David ; Changing perceptions of the movies : American Catholics debate film censorship / Gregory D. Black ; Historical spectatorship around and about Stanley Kramer's On the beach / G. Tom Poe

Part 2. The spectator reviewed ; 'Green like me' / Jane M. Gaines ; The sonic playground : Hollywood cinema and its listeners / Gianluca Sergi ; The contemporary cinephile : film collecting in the post-video era / Barbara Klinger ; Virtual Hollywood and the genealogy of its hyper-spectator / Alain J.J. Cohen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 25 September 2020).

ISBN:

9781838710071

1838710078

9781838716233

1838716238

9781838716240

1838716246

OCLC:

1203950786

Publisher Number:

205638