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Watching films : new perspectives on movie-going, exhibition and reception / edited by Karina Aveyard and Albert Moran.
- Title
- Watching films : new perspectives on movie-going, exhibition and reception / edited by Karina Aveyard and Albert Moran.
- Publication
- Bristol : Intellect 2013.
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- Description
- xxi, 418 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- With a focus on the social, economic, and cultural factors that influence how we watch and think about movies, this book centres its investigations on four areas of inquiry: Who watches films? Under what circumstances? What consequences and affects follow? And what do these acts of consumption mean?
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Cinema, Modernity and Audiences: Revisiting and Expanding the Debate / Albert Moran / Karina Aveyard -- ch. 2 What is a Cinema? Death, Closure and the Database / Daniel Biltereyst -- ch. 3 Poetics of Film-audience Reception? Barbara Deming Goes to the Movies / Deb Verhoeven -- ch. 4 Porous Boundaries of Newsreel Memory Research / Albert Moran -- ch. 5 Why are Children the Most Important Audience for Pornography in Australia? / Louise Anderson -- ch. 6 Local Promotion of a 'Picture Personality': A Case Study of the Vitagraph Girl / Alan McKee -- ch. 7 'Calamity Howling': The Advent of Television and Australian Cinema Exhibition / Kathryn Fuller-Seeley -- ch. 8 Nation of Film-goers: Audiences, Exhibition and Distribution in New Zealand / Mike Walsh -- ch. 9 Critical Reception of Certified Copy: Original Art or Copy of a Rom-com? / Geoff Lealand -- ch. 10 Movie-going in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia: A Case Study of Place, Transportation, Audiences, Racism, Censorship and Sunday Showings / Eylem Akatav -- ch. 11 From Mom-and-Pop to Paramount-Publix: Selling the Community on the Benefits of National Theatre Chains / Douglas Gomery -- ch. 12 Progressive City and Its Cinemas: Technology, Modernity and the Spectacle of Abundance / Jeffrey Klenotic -- ch. 13 'They Don't Need Me in Heaven ... There are No Cinemas There, Ye Know': Cinema Culture in Antwerp (Belgium) and the Empire of Georges Heylen, 1945-75 / Mark Jancovich / Lucy Faire / Sarah Stubbings -- ch. 14 From Out-of-town to the Edge and Back to the Centre: Multiplexes in Britain from the 1990s / Kathleen Lotze / Philippe Meers -- ch. 15 Place of Rural Exhibition: Makeshift Cinema-going and the Highlands and Islands Film Guild (Scotland) / Stuart Hanson -- ch. 16 'A Popcorn-free Zone': Distinctions in Independent Film Exhibition in Wellington, New Zealand / Ian Goode -- ch. 17 Getting to See Women's Cinema / Ian Huffer -- ch. 18 Shifting Fandoms of Film, Community and Family / Julia Knight -- ch. 19 Watching Popular Films in the Netherlands, 1934-36 / Tom Phillips -- ch. 20 Contemporary Italian Film-goers and Their Critics / Clara Pafort-Overduin -- ch. 21 Imagining a 'Decent Crowd' at the Indian Multiplex / Catherine O'Rawe / Alan O'Leary -- ch. 22 VHS Generation and their Movie Experiences / Adrian Mabbott Athique.
- ISBN
- 1841505110 (pbk.)
- 9781841505114 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 854595091
- SCSB-11951209
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library