The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film ConsumptionIt has been a recurring complaint both within and against film studies that it has largely ignored the activities of audiences. This book aims to address this absence (as compared to television studies) and to explain its cause. The authors argue that there is a social context in which the consumption of film can be understood or studied historically; demonstrating that a concentration on the place of film consumption within the changing cultural politics of the city can offer a compelling and productive focus of analysis. This book examines not only the different meanings of different sites of film exhibition and distribution (city-centre cinemas, local cinemas, art-house cinemas, multiplexes, terrestrial television transmission, video rental and retail, and satellite/cable), but also the meanings of the activities of film consumption associated with these sites. Through use of archival materials and ethnographic studies of the audience, the book examines the meanings of film consumption from the earliest film showings up to the 21st century. |
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... concerns the audience as a market , while the sec- ond concerns the inter - textual contexts within which the reception of films takes place , and is therefore concerned with the ways in which films are framed for audiences . The third ...
... concerns the audience as a market , while the sec- ond concerns the inter - textual contexts within which the reception of films takes place , and is therefore concerned with the ways in which films are framed for audiences . The third ...
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... concerns about cinema in the period - physical danger , cultural influence and the moral implications of Sunday opening - the concerns over cin- ema's cultural influence seem to have stimulated the least local reaction in Nottingham ...
... concerns about cinema in the period - physical danger , cultural influence and the moral implications of Sunday opening - the concerns over cin- ema's cultural influence seem to have stimulated the least local reaction in Nottingham ...
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... concerns with modernity and mass culture . Those who expressed greatest concern over the multiplex were usually those who most identified with the art cinema as a venue , and Chapter 14 moves on to examine the emergence of the Broadway ...
... concerns with modernity and mass culture . Those who expressed greatest concern over the multiplex were usually those who most identified with the art cinema as a venue , and Chapter 14 moves on to examine the emergence of the Broadway ...
Contents
Contexts of Film Consumption | 16 |
Class Gender and Public Space in Early Film Consumption | 37 |
Slum Clearance Cinema Building and Differentiated Experiences | 83 |
Copyright | |
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