American Movie Audiences

American Movie Audiences
Author: Melvyn Stokes
Publisher: British Film Institute
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1999-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

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Audiences

Audiences
Author: Ian Christie
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2012
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9089643621

"This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls for censorship and moral panics rather than to understanding the mental and behavioral world of the spectator. Early cinema history has revealed the diversity of film-viewing habits, while traditional 'box office' studies, which treated the audience initially as a homogeneous market, have been replaced by the study of individual consumers and their motivations. Latterly, there has been a marked turn towards more sophisticated economic and sociological analysis of attendance data. And as the film experience fragments across multiple formats, the perceptual and cognitive experience of the individual viewer (who is also an auditor) has become increasingly accessible. With contributions from Gregory Waller, John Sedgwick and Martin Barker, this work spans the spectrum of contemporary audience studies, revealing work being done on local, non-theatrical and live digital transmission audiences, and on the relative attraction of large-scale, domestic and mobile platforms."--Publisher's website.

Film audiences

Film audiences
Author: Bridgette Wessels
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2022-12-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526157837

Reception studies have made film audiences increasingly visible, while surveys track trends and policymakers gather information about audience preferences and demographics. But little attention has been paid to the specific contextual relationships and interactions between films and individuals that generate and sustain audiences. This monograph develops the idea of audiences as interactive and relational, introducing three innovative concepts: ‘personal film journeys’, five types of audience formations and five geographies of film provision. A major challenge of audience research is how to capture the richness of people’s social and cultural engagement with film. To achieve this, the book uses an innovative mixed-methods research and computational ontology. It develops ground-breaking theory and concepts and an innovative methodology based on an extensive data-set derived from the under-researched area of British regional film audiences.

American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing

American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing
Author: Tom Stempel
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780813171173

A unique perspective on half a century of American cinema -- from the audience's point of view. Tom Stempel goes beyond the comments of professional reviewers, concentrating on the opinions of ordinary people. He traces shifting trends in genre and taste, examining and questioning the power films have in American society. Stempel blends audience response with his own observations and analyzes box office results that identify the movies people actually went to see, not just those praised by the critics. Avoiding statistical summary, he presents the results of a survey on movies and moviegoing i.

Cinema, Audiences and Modernity

Cinema, Audiences and Modernity
Author: Daniel Biltereyst
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136642005

This book confronts theoretical models on cinema as both a product and a catalyst of European modernity with new empirical work on the history of the social experience of cinema-going, film audiences and film exhibition.

Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963

Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963
Author: Samson Kaunga Ndanyi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2022-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1793649251

In Instructional Cinema and African Audiences in Colonial Kenya, 1926–1963, the author argues against the colonial logic instigating that films made for African audiences in Kenya influenced them to embrace certain elements of western civilization but Africans had nothing to offer in return. The author frames this logic as unidirectional approach purporting that Africans were passive recipients of colonial programs. Contrary to this understanding, the author insists that African viewers were active participants in the discourse of cinema in Kenya. Employing unorthodox means to protest mediocre films devoid of basic elements of film production, African spectators forced the colonial government to reconsider the way it produced films. The author frames the reconsideration as bidirectional approach. Instructional cinema first emerged as a tool to “educate” and “modernize” Africans, but it transformed into a contestable space of cultural and political power, a space that both sides appropriated to negotiate power and actualize their abstract ideas.

Heritage Film Audiences

Heritage Film Audiences
Author: Claire Monk
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0748688862

This book is a study of the contemporary audiences for quality period films, and their responses to these films, with reference to the critical debate which constructs many of these films as 'heritage films'.

Understanding Audiences and the Film Industry

Understanding Audiences and the Film Industry
Author: Roy Stafford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1839020997

Brings together an introduction to academic study of audiences as 'readers' of films and an investigation into how the film industry perceives audiences as part of its industrial practices. The appraoch draws on ideas from film, media and cultural studies to present an insight to what makes the biggest box office films attractive to audiences.

American Cinema’s Transitional Era

American Cinema’s Transitional Era
Author: Charlie Keil
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2004-07-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520240278

This 'transitional era' covered the years 1908-1917 & witnessed profound changes in the structure of the motion picture industry in the US, involving film genre, film form, filmmaking practices & the emergence of the studio system. The pattern which emerged dominated the industry for decades to come.

Audience-ology

Audience-ology
Author: Kevin Goetz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2022-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982186747

Looks at the often secretive process of audience testing Hollywood movies and how it can help shape movies, with first-hand accounts from directors such as Ron Howard, Cameron Crowe, Drew Barrymore and Ed Zwick.