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Title Making sense of cinema : empirical studies into film spectators and spectatorship / edited by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson
Published New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Introduction: Empirical Approaches to Film Spectators and Spectatorship / CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson -- 2. Spectatorship in Public Space: The Moving Image in Public Art / Annie Dell'Aria -- 3. The Festival Collective: Cult Audiences and Asian Extreme Cinema / Jessica Hughes -- 4. : Transnational Investments: Aging in Les Invisibles (Sébastien Lifshitz, 2012) and its Reception / Darren Waldron -- 5. Preferred Readings and Dissociative Appropriations: Group Discussions Following and Challenging the Tradition of Cultural Studies / Alexander Geimer -- 6/ "Legolas, He's Cool ... and He's Hot!": The Meanings and Implications of Audiences' Favorite Characters / Martin Barker -- 7. In Search of the Child Spectator in the Late Silent Era / Amanda C. Fleming -- 8. Seeing, Sensing Sound: Eye-Tracking Soundscapes in Saving Private Ryan and Monsters, Inc. / Andrea Russell, Sean Redmond, Jenny Robinson, Jane Stadler, Darrin Verhagen and Sarah Pink -- 9. Seeing Animated Worlds: Eye Tracking and the Spectator's Experience of Narrative / Craig Batty, Adrian Dyer, Claire Perkins and Jodi Sita -- 10. Focalization, Attachment on Film Viewers' Responses to Film Characters: Experimental Design with Qualitative Data Collection / Katalin Bálint and András Bálint Kovács -- 11. Making Sense of the American Superhero Film: Experiences of Engagement and Detachment / CarrieLynn D. Reinhard -- 12. Indexing the Events of an Art Film by Audiences with Different Viewing Backgrounds / Sermin Ildirar -- 13. Exploring the Role of Narrative Contextualizationin Film Interpretation: Issues and Challenges for Eye-Tracking Methodology / Thorsten Kluss, John Bateman, Heinz-Oeter Preusser and Kerstin Schill -- 14. Conclusion: A Metholodigcal Toolbos for Film Reception Studies / Christopher J. Olson
Summary "Explores a variety of theological and methodological approaches to film spectatorship through a dialogue of international contributions"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motion picture audiences -- Research -- Methodology
Films, cinema.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Form Electronic book
Author Reinhard, CarrieLynn D., editor
Olson, Christopher J., editor
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